The world’s 26 poorest countries are deeper in debt than at any time since 2006 and increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters and other shocks, the World Bank has said.

Mozambique is a country in Southeast Africa and has a GDP of $53.71 billion. With a GDP per capita of $1,580, Mozambique makes it to our list of the poorest countries in the world.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The world's 26 poorest countries, home to 40% of the most poverty-stricken people, are more in debt than at any time since 2006 and increasingly vulnerable to natural ...

Data: Debt Justice; Chart: Axios Visuals One out of every six dollars the world's poorest governments received in revenue in 2024 went straight to foreigners in the form of debt service, per a new ...

They will also ask high-income countries to make good on promises of billions of dollars in climate finance—dollars that have not come, even as the world's poorest countries experience some of ...

East Timor remains one of the poorest in the world, with around 42% living below the poverty line. It struggles with high levels of unemployment and malnutrition.

A dozen poor countries are facing economic instability and even collapse under the weight of hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign loans, much of them from the world’s biggest and most ...

A U.N. report says many countries are bouncing back from the COVID-19 pandemic, but the poorest are not and a significant number are seeing their conditions deteriorate.