0.3% of population lives on €2.50 per day

Some 0.3% of Malta’s population is living on just €2.50c per day, according to figures from a data aggregate publication.
According to Our World in Data, some 1,530 Maltese people are living in extreme poverty and severe material deprivation, living on an estimated €75 per month.
This comes after the World Bank recently adjusted the figure at which the poverty line is set from $1.90 to $2.15.
The United Nations-backed financial institution uses international dollars to express the figure, which is a unit of currency equivalent to a United States dollar at a given point in time. The adjustment in the international dollar now reflects 2017 prices, where it previously reflected 2011 prices.
Adjusted to reflect prices in 2022, the $2.15 corresponds to €2.52.

Using figures from the World Bank Poverty and Inequality platform, Our World in Data (a UK-based scientific online publication) found that from 2009 to 2014, the share of the population living on the poverty line had been steadily declining, going from 0.43% or roughly 1,775 people in 2009 to a low of 0.0% in 2014.
However, since then, the trend in extreme poverty has been on the increase, shooting up to 0.3% in 2019. There was...