US EditionPoverty in Argentina Falls to Lowest Level Since 2018
Poverty rate dropped by 6.5 points from late 2024, but over 14 million Argentines remain below the poverty line amid income and cost of living gaps, INDEC reported.
- In the first semester of this year, the INDEC national statistics bureau reported Argentina's urban poverty rate fell to a historic seven-year low.
- Experts credited inflation cooling, tighter monetary measures, targeted cash transfers, and a steadier peso for reducing price pressures and supporting spending.
- On income measures, extreme poverty declined to 6.9 percent, with poor households earning around 671,492 pesos against a CBT of 1,065,691 pesos, and household incomes rose 14 million.
- The report found more than 14 million Argentines are poor, with 45.4 percent of children under 14 affected, especially in the Northeast at 39.0 percent.
- However, the gap between income and the CBT remains unchanged, narrowing Argentina's gap with Brazil and offering a case study in inflation control, income support and monetary stability.
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According to Argentina’s National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC), urban poverty fell to 31.6 percent in the first half of 2025. This drop marks a historic seven-year low and edges Argentina closer to Brazil’s 27.4 percent national poverty rate. Household incomes rose 26.3 percent on average, outpacing the 12.3 percent rise in the overall […]
The National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) of Argentina reported that 9.5 million people, almost half of the people living in Chile, live in poverty. This means that the poverty rate reached 31.6% in the first semester of this year.The Indec figure meant a decrease both in the second semester of 2024 (38.1%) and in the same period of the previous year (52.9%).In addition, the index reached its lowest level since the second semester …
In the middle of 2025, poverty fell to 31.6% in Argentina, a figure equivalent to 14.5 million people. This is the best figure of the Government of Javier Milei, who inherited from Peronism at the end of 2023 a country in which 41.7% of the population was poor, and the lowest also since 2018, when the economic program of Mauricio Macri began to crack. The figures released this Thursday by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec)…
The National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC) reported that in the first half of 2025 poverty reached 31.6 per cent of the population, a decrease of 21.3 per cent.
The index produced by the INDEC showed the lowest percentage since 2018 for the first half of 2025.Both the President and Manuel Adorni went out to celebrate in electoral code.
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