Indigence and poverty indicators have improved in the last year in the city of Buenos Aires, according to data from the Statistical Directorate of CABA (ODSA-UCA). EFE / Juan Ignacio Roncoroni.
Indigence and poverty indicators have improved over the past year in the city of Buenos Aires. They are similar to those of 2019 before the pandemicbut more adverse than those of 2017, before the start of the recession, according to the Report on “Living Conditions by Income” of the Statistical and Census Directorate of the CABA.
A) Yes, in the last 12 months, for the improvement of family income due to increased activity and decreased unemployment in the first quarter of this year poverty was reduced from 9.4% to 5.9% while poverty decreased from 26.5% to 20.3%.
In the interannual comparison, poverty fell from 817,000 to 625,000 people (-192,000) while poverty went from 290,000 to 182,000 (-108,000).
For its part, “it is noted that 31.9% of children and adolescents (0-17 years) live in families in poverty (220,500 people). A year ago, the figure was 42.7%, ”according to the Buenos Aires Report.
“To the values of the first quarter, on average, we would have to transfer 27,675 dollars families in a situation of poverty to get out of this condition. This income gap always represents, on average, 38.6% of the income of families living in poverty, ”says the report.
If to the data on poverty, which include the poor, (625,000 people) we add those of vulnerable sectors (233,000) – qualified as having incomes close to the poverty line – in total there are 858,000 people (27.9% of the total) with deprivations of various degrees.
Consequentially, “After almost two years have passed since the beginning of the pandemic, the incidence of poverty -and poverty- is similar to that of the immediately preceding period “says the Buenos Aires Management Report.
Is that in the first quarter of 2019, poverty was 6% and poverty 19.1%. However, before the onset of the recession, in the first quarter of 2017, poverty was 14.9% and poverty 4%.
Compared to a year ago, “in the general structure by income strata, the greatest changes compared to 2019 are observed in the composition of the non-poor segment: greater weight of the “medium-fragile” intermediate segment and affluent sectors, to the detriment of the medium and vulnerable sectors ”, explains the Report.
Thus, the middle class went from 50.7% to 48.2% (1,485,000 people), the fragile medium sectors increased (373,000) and the richest sector advanced (363,000 people).
For their part, of those who remain in poverty, some groups are more affected than others.
“It is worth highlighting families with female head of household (where the incidence of poverty is 16.9%, against 13.5% with male head), by an unemployed person (when they quadruple the incidence of the total), or by a service worker (36.5%). Also to families in the South (27.6%) and those with children under the age of 14 (25.8%), the latter with increasing incidence of poverty and destitution with the number of children at home. Below the average (8.7%) is instead the share of families with the presence of elderly people who are in a situation of poverty and decreases with the number of people over 65 in the family, as a consequence of the large pension. coverage that guarantees a minimum income, ”says the Report.
CABA Q1 2017-2022 Poverty Series
- 2017 ………. 14.9%
- 2018 ………. 18.0%
- 2019 ……… ..19.1%
- 2020 ………. 22.9%
- 2021 ………. 26.5%
- 2022 ……….. .. 20.3%
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Ishmael Bermudez
Source: Clarin
