b'Emphasizes that economic growth continues to leave rural dwellers behind, and rural areas host a disproportionate share of people living in multidimensional multidimansional poverty. Comparable data from 110 countries reveal that Africa account for the highest number of multidimensionally poor people. that, circa 2018, 80 per cent of the people living in extreme poverty lived in rural areas and 35 per cent of the population in sub-Saharan Africa lived on less than 2.15 dollars per day in 2019, and recommends that countries promote dedicated and coordinated social, economic, agricultural and rural development in their national policies, including by adopting rural-focused poverty eradication strategies in alignment with the 2030 Agenda, social policies aimed at improving human capital in rural areas and ensuring access to adequate social protection coverage, agricultural policies aimed at boosting agricultural productivity, and rural development policies aimed at improving access to rural infrastructure and basic services of high quality and at boosting non-farm employment opportunities; (A/78/238, para10) '