An important fall is expected with respect to the same period of 2024, due to the high comparison base.
Indec will announce this Thursday the Poverty data of the first semester of 2025. A significant fall is expected with respect to the same period of 2024, due to the high comparison base.
According to the projections based on the permanent household survey (EPH) prepared by CEDLAS and the UCA Social Debt Observatory, In the first quarter of the year, 31.5% of the Argentine population was below the poverty line and 6.9% below the indigence line.
This implied that Almost 15 million Argentines are poorof which 3.3 million are also homeless. If compared against the last quarter of the Government of Alberto Fernández without Aguinaldo, it follows that 3,054,435 people left poverty in the Milei government, a figure that is far from the 12 million that the ruling party in its story installs.
However, it is worth noting that in recent months Royal wages stopped growing, Therefore, the effect of the slowdown in inflation may not translate significantly in less poverty.
The measurement of income poverty is also under discussion by Lack of updating of the food and services basket which is used to evaluate this indicator, which should be carried out based on the National Survey of Household Expenses 2017-2018 (Engho) and not with that of 2004 (which has a much lower weight weight).
According to private projections, The first semester poverty would be below 35%. In the first half of 2024 the figure had been 52.9%, while in the second half it fell to 38.1%.
Source: Ambito
