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12. Some 75% of the world's poor currently live in rural areas, and rural poverty is likely to predominate for decades to come. Countries use different national consumption/poverty thresholds and rural-urban borderlines to estimate poverty. Taking these considerations into account, IFAD's Rural Poverty Report 20011 and World Bank studies, such as its 1997 Rural Development - from vision to action,2 estimate that about three quarters of the extreme poor currently live in rural areas. Even under high assumptions of economic development and rural-to-urban migration, 60% of the extreme poor are likely to be in rural areas in 2020 and 50% in 2035.
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