6. 即使在 2020 年之前，数十年的国际发展努力仍未完成除贫事业，而 COVID-19 大流行、战争和其他危机又加大了除贫的难度。妇女和女童占贫困人口的多数。联合国促进性别平等和增强妇女权能署(妇女署)和联合国开发计划署(开发署)的新预测估计，2022 年全球将有 3.88 亿妇女女童生活在极端贫困中。根据这一新的预测，世界上 83.7%的赤贫妇女和女童集中在撒哈拉以南非洲(2.8%)和中亚南亚(20.9%)。
6. Even before 2020, poverty eradication remained the unfinished business of decades of international development efforts, and the COVID-19 pandemic, war and other crises have only made the situation worse. The majority of the poor are women and girls; new projections by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) estimate that, globally, 388 million women and girls will be living in extreme poverty in 2022. According to these new forecasts, 83.7 per cent of the world’s women and girls in extreme poverty would live in sub-Saharan Africa (2.8 per cent) and Central and Southern Asia (20.9).