I just looked at a ranking of the 50 poorest countries in the world by GDP per capita in 2025, and some numbers are quite shocking. South Sudan leads this unfortunate list with only R$251, followed by Yemen with R$417 and Burundi with R$490. Most are concentrated in Africa, but there are also Asian countries like Nepal, Laos, and Cambodia appearing in this group of the poorest.

What stands out is that among the 50 poorest countries in the world, almost the entire Sahel region is there - Mali, Niger, Chad, Burkina Faso. Then there’s a jump: Somalia with R$766, DRC with R$743. In Asia, the situation is similar - Nepal with R$1,458, East Timor with R$1,491, Cambodia with R$2,870.

At the bottom of the list of the 50 poorest, you already see Bangladesh with R$2,689, India with R$2,878, and Ivory Coast with R$2,872. It’s like a mirror of global inequalities. These 2025 data show that little has changed structurally in these countries.