THE Poverty in the second half of 2022 reached 39.2% of the Argentine population, according to data reported this Thursday by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses. miseryWhile, got 8.1%.
These data are known in the midst of a scenario marked by drought, low wages and relentless inflation, for which the trend is assumed to continue in an upward direction.
analysts had anticipated in the previous one that the number of poverty would exceed 40%, a leap that can be explained by the escalation of the price index, which closed last year with a rise of 94.8%.
Poverty in the first half of 2022 had reached 36.5% of the population, something like 17.4 million people living in 4.4 million homes. Poverty had been 8.8%, just above.
So far under Alberto Fernández’s management, the highest record was that of the second half of 2020, with 42%, when the pandemic caused the index to jump to the highest records since 2003.
Since that figure of 42% in 2020, all measurements have shown a decline in poverty.
In the previous one it was learned that the total basic basket (CBT), which establishes the poverty line, increased by 8.3% in February this year, therefore a typical family of four members (two adults and two children) he needed $177,063 to not be considered poor.
Meanwhile, the basic food basket (CBA), which defines the poverty line, also marked an 11.7% increase, so that families needed $80,483 to cover their basic needs to survive .
In the City, homelessness has grown and the middle class has declined
During 2022, especially in the last quarter, with increased activity and employment, there has been a leap of destitute people living in the city of Buenos Aires: went from 6% to 7.7%, or 186,000 to 237,000 people. This increase has almost doubled since the end of 2015, when poverty was only 4.1%. The data was released on March 21.
At the same time, there was a contraction of the middle class (from 49.9% to 47.2%) due to the increase in vulnerable and medium-fragile sectors. This reduction is greater than at the end of 2015, when the middle class represented 51.9%.
With the exception of the year 2020, due to the pandemic and the quarantine, the figure on poverty is the highest in the series that began in 2015, exceeding the previous figure of 6.6% at the end of 2018.
At the end of 2016, there were 154,000 homeless people: an increase of 83,000 homeless people in just 6 years. And the middle class went from 1,592,000 to 1,453,000 people: a drop of 139,000 people.
Meanwhile, in one year, children and adolescents (0-17 years) residing in families in poverty went from 33% to 33.8% (233,500).
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Source: Clarin
