Uruguay closed the 2024 with 17.3% poor, the same value that there was when Lacalle Pou arrived

According to the new methodology implemented, poverty affects 17.3 per cent of the population, while indigence reaches 1.5 per cent. This methodological update, based on a broader and more up-to-date basket of goods and services, seeks to reflect more precisely the basic needs of the population. The report highlights that poverty hits children hardest. 32.2 per cent of children under the age of six live in poverty, a figure that remains high amo…

The National Institute of Statistics (INE) presented data for the poverty and destitution lines of 2024, according to household income, using the 2017 methodology, based on the National Household Expenditure and Income Survey conducted between 2016 and 2017.The Director of the Planning and Budget Office (OPP), Rodrigo Arim, considered it important to have a tool to better measure the level of poverty.The new methodology allows better knowledge o…

Luvis Hochimín Pareja One out of every three children under six years of age is poor in Uruguay, according to a new report by the National Institute of Statistics (INE). The poverty figure at the close of the right-wing Luis Lacalle government concluded that 17.3% of Uruguayans are under the poverty line. 13.4% of households. The INE applied a methodological change with which it concluded that poverty ended 2024 by 17.3%. New poverty data also s…

In 2024, poverty measured by income in Uruguay was 17.3%, according to data released on Friday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE). In addition, indigence was 1.5%. These values were achieved on the basis of a new calculation implemented by the public body.So far, the survey used for the disclosure of the INE was based on a survey carried out in 2006.In contrast, the new methodology was based on a survey of household expenditure and in…

The National Institute of Statistics (INE) reported that 17.3 per cent of the Uruguayan population lives below the poverty line, according to the new 2024 measurement. Moreover, 1.5 per cent of people are in poverty, that is, without sufficient income to cover even a basic food basket. The report was prepared using an updated methodology based on a consumption basket designed in 2017, so that the data cannot be compared directly with the previou…