Overview
- Extreme poverty dropped to 5.3%, affecting about 164,000 people, per IDECBA’s latest release.
- Compared with a year earlier, an estimated 334,000 people and 111,000 households exited poverty, marking a fourth straight interannual decline.
- IDECBA attributes the improvement primarily to incomes rising faster than inflation rather than changes in employment.
- Child poverty fell sharply to 27.1% from 42.6%, with analysts citing stronger targeted transfers such as AUH and Tarjeta Alimentar.
- The middle class expanded to 51.4% of households and the affluent to 16.1%, yet inequality widened as the family-income Gini rose to 0.441 and poverty remains higher in the South and in homes with children.