"As of 2005, the latest year for which direct survey-based estimates are
available, China still had 254 million people consuming less
than $1.25 per day in 2005 PPP dollars (90 million people consuming less
than $1.08 per day in 1993 PPP dollars), the second largest concentration of
extreme poor in the world after India." http://siteresources.worldbank.org/CHINAEXTN/Resources/318949-1
