When he entered office, East Asia had 1.22 billion people living on less than $3 a day (in 2021 dollars) — more than half the world's total. By the time Xi Jinping became China's top leader, that number was one-sixth of what it had been: This is the biggest and fastest decrease in absolute poverty that the human race has ever seen.
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