Poverty in South America

Poverty in Latin America Returned to Pre-Pandemic Levels in 2022 ...

In 2022, the percentage of people living in poverty fell to 29% of Latin America's population (181 million people), 1.2 percentage points lower than before the ...

Poverty in South America - Wikipedia

Poverty in South America is prevalent in most of its countries. Those that have the highest rates of poverty per population are Suriname, Bolivia and Venezuela.

The challenges facing Latin America and the Caribbean in ...

In the aggregate, in Latin America and the Caribbean between 2000 and 2022, poverty measured with the upper-middle income country (UMIC) poverty ...

Poverty Rates in Latin America Remain Above Pre-Pandemic Levels ...

ECLAC projects that by the end of 2022, poverty will stand at 32.1% of the population (a percentage equivalent to 201 million people) and extreme poverty at 13 ...

Poverty in Latin America: Where do we come from, where are we ...

With a $4 a day poverty line, the region's population living in poverty fell from 45 to 25 percent between 2000 and 2014.

The changing faces of poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean

Although rural poverty rates remain higher, the number of urban poor continues to rise faster. Figure 2 shows that the share of the poor living ...

The Complexities of Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Latin America and the Caribbean is the world's most unequal region. The 10% highest earners make on average 12 times more than the poorest ...

Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean: A long and bumpy road ...

Economic activity in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has shown dramatic contractions and vigorous though uneven rebounds, all in a context of political ...

Poverty rates in Latin America | Statista

Honduras was the country in Latin America with the highest share of population living on less than 3.20 U.S..

Can Latin America Regain Momentum in Fighting Poverty?

Latin America and the Caribbean has made undeniable progress in eradicating poverty in this century. In the early 2000s, about half of the ...

Why Latin America and the Caribbean Lag Behind

Nearly 36 percent of the population in Latin America and the Caribbean lives below the poverty line—the same proportion as a decade ago. Although incomes have ...

1. No poverty | 2030 Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean

To avoid intergenerational transmission of poverty in the long term, it is key to improve the quality of public education and expand its coverage in order to ...

Latin America: poverty and extreme poverty 2023 | Statista

Overall, both the number of people living in poverty and extreme poverty in Latin America has increased since 2015, reaching 183 and 72 ...

A closer look at poverty in Latin America - IDB

According to Jeffrey Sachs, in his recent presentation, “Next Steps in the Fight Against Poverty” at the IDB Forum of the Americas, Latin America is not ...

A broader view of poverty in South America - World Data Lab

Poverty is decreasing in every country in South America except Venezuela. The population with less than $1.90 a day is expected to increase from around 9 ...

Policy Brief : Growth, employment, and poverty in Latin America

In short, the 2000s were a time of strong improvement in the growth-employment-poverty nexus in the great majority of Latin American countries. The only ...

Poorest Countries in South America 2024 - World Population Review

Bolivia currently ranks as South America's poorest country. Approximately 80% of the population of Bolivia lives in poverty.

Latin America's Poverty Is Down, But Violence Is Up. Why?

Although inequality has declined across much of Latin America and the Caribbean in recent years, that progress is now stagnating. The World Bank and SEDLAC ...

The Poorest Countries In South America - WorldAtlas

Bolivia has the lowest GDP per capita in South America.

This is what poverty looks like in Latin America - YouTube

This is what poverty looks like in Latin America.