In 2014, the United States defined poverty as the state in which anyone is surviving on less than

The correct answer is $1.25 a day.

In 2014, the World Bank set the international poverty line at $1.25 per day for extreme poverty. This threshold helps to identify individuals living in severe financial hardship across different countries. While the U.S. has its own measures of poverty based on income and family size, the $1.25 figure is used globally to assess extreme poverty.