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No. You are overestimating the income distribution in the world. The 10% worldwide threshold is a out 70k USD ppp, see: https://wid.world/world/#tptinc_p90p100_z/US;FR;DE;CN;ZA;GB;WO-PPP/last/us/k/p/yearly/t/false/0/200000/curve/false/country
2/3 of that would be 46k dollars. In which "developed" country in Europe would that be the poverty line? Poverty in German, iirc is around 20k euros.