Although there may be a lack of poverty data disaggregated by mountain region for most of the world, mountain-specific data do exist and so does poverty in the Appalachian Mountains of North America. Over four decades of surveys and analyses of 406 mountain counties, 22 million people, and 200,000 square miles of mountain landscape show that the Appalachian mountain region, when compared to national averages, has and continues to be disadvantaged in terms of income, employment, and poverty levels.
