The poverty rate in the 2021 survey was 11.5 percent, down 2.5 percentage points from the 2018 survey. Japan’s rate is also now below the OECD average of 12.8 percent.
War transforms countries. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, launched in 2022, has not only killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, shattered cities and communities, and crippled the ...
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is the world’s biggest country in terms of land mass. On a map, Russia sits above Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China. Russia dwarfs China in geographic coverage ...