The Poverty in the city of Buenos Aires fell to 19.9% during the first quarter from the 35.1% in the same period last year (-15.2 percentage points) and affected 613,000 Buenos Airesaccording to official figures of the CABA Statistics and Census Institute (IDECBA). In this way, the threshold of indigence reached 6.2% of the population, while the 13.7% of people is in non -destitute poverty situation. These are the lowest figures in a first quarter since 2022.
Within Buenos Aires homes poverty reaches 15.2% (206,000 homes), while destitution affects 4.1% (56,000 homes). The weight of those in extreme condition (indigence) is reduced, going from representing the 35.5% In the first quarter of 2024 to 27% in the same period of 2025.
Among the groups most impacted by poverty are households located in South Zone (27.2%) and those who have Boys and girls under 14 years (28.2%)the latter with incidents of increasing poverty and destitution with the number of children at home. Below the incidence of poverty for the total city, the Households with the presence of older adults (13.3%).
After the abrupt fall of poverty, Agustín Salvia Coordinator of the UCA Argentine Social Debt Observatory He pointed to methodological changes, the decline in inflation and other factors, “There was an improvement in income collection, which is favorable from the technical point of view”since it generates an improvement of the measurement tool. However, this generates that “There is a problem of comparability in the series”.
He family per capita income of households In indigence condition it is $ 88,282 and that of those who suffer Non -destitute poverty It is from $ 263,483. On average, it would be required to transfer $ 330,572 to each home in poverty to leave that condition. That income gap represents, always on average. 35.3% of the total basic basket.
Poverty was reduced in CABA and the average sector expanded
As a counterpart of the reduction of the weight of the strata in poverty, the non -poor strata expanded and the participation of the average sector in the interannual comparison grew.
The average sector represented the category of greater magnitude: 52.5% of the homes of the city of Buenos Aires and 48.6% of the population (some 710,000 homes and 1,500,000 people, respectively) and their participation expanded 11.1 pp. in homes and 11.2 pp. in population in the last year. Likewise, they failed to overcome the threshold of 2023.
The accommodated sectors They also expanded their presence: the percentage of households reached the 13% And that of people in 10.8% and involved some 176,000 homes and 332,000 people. In this case, they also exceeded the threshold of 2024 -recession period and high inflation due to devaluation -although they did not reach the level of 2023 (53.1% of households and 49.2% of Buenos Aires inhabitants).
Another finding is that the Fragile middle sectorwhich are the intermediate homes between the condition of vulnerability and the middle sectors, did not show significant changes with respect to the same quarter of 2024. 10.4% of households are in this threshold, while 11.7% of people are in this condition (140,000 and 361,000, respectively).
The homes in vulnerable situation They represent the 8.9% (120,000) and they live in them 9% of the population (279,000 people). In the last year, this segment contracted, since it came from 11.4% in the same period of 2023.
In addition to the set of homes in poverty, households in vulnerability, which contain 24.1% (about 326,000 homes), in which 28.9% of the population inhabits (about 892,000 people). However, the population in this situation was reduced from 46.4% in the last year.
Source: Ambito
