Household and per capita perceptions declined across the country compared to the first quarter.
He average household income and the average per capita income fell in the second quarter of the year compared to the first at the national level, going from 95,395 pesos to 94,956, and from 33,843 pesos to 33,706 pesos, respectively.
The data comes from the latest technical bulletin on “Household and Personal Income” prepared by the National Institute of Statistics (INE), corresponding to the second quarter of 2024.
The average household income fell by more than 0.46%, while the average per capita income fell by more than 0.40%. However, the average household income remains almost 7.2% higher than that recorded in the second quarter of 2023, and the average individual income is more than 7.2%.
The average household income was 439 pesos below the estimate for the previous quarter, but 6,377 pesos higher in the year-on-year comparison. The average per capita income fell 137 pesos, but is 2,265 pesos higher than last year.
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The drop in income was greater in Montevideo
In turn, it follows that the fall in household income was greater in Montevideo with respect to insideIn Montevideo, prices rose from 117,142 pesos to 116,150 pesos from one quarter to the next, while in the interior they rose from 80,677 pesos to 80,614 pesos. In other words, in Montevideo the variation was negative by almost 0.85% and in the interior by 0.07%.
Measured in constant values, the average household income for the country as a whole was estimated at 22,761 pesos, that is, 776 pesos more than the previous year (21,985 pesos) and 384 pesos lower than the estimate for the previous quarter, of 23,145 pesos.
Source: Ambito
