Study reveals that almost half of Mexicans live in poverty
In Mexico, 16.8 percent of its population cannot pay for several of their basic needs, such as food or housing.
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A study by the Latin American network for Economic and Social Justice (Latindadd) established that Latin America and the Caribbean are the regions hardest hit by the pandemic caused by Covid-19 globallyHe, to detail it, developed a “Vulnerability Atlas”, Where the analysis of the situation of 24 countries in the region is established.
On the poverty indicator, uranks Mexico as the third country with the highest proportion of inhabitants living in poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The top 5 of poverty is occupied by Honduras, with 64.7% of its inhabitants, behind Guatemala, with 59.3%, Mexico, 48.8%, Colombia, 42.5% and Argentina, 42%.
In the case of Mexico is far from the countries that registered the best conditions, as Chile, Uruguay and Panama only have 10.8, 11.6 and 20.7 percent of their respective populations in precarious income.
The trend in extreme poverty is practically the same, Mexico also occupies the third worst position in Latin America, where 16.8 percent of its population cannot pay for various of their basic needs, such as food or housing. and it is only surpassed again by Honduras and Guatemala, countries in this condition that afflict 41 and 23 percent of its inhabitants, respectively.
According to Latindadd, poverty acts as an amplifying factor of the economic and health impacts left by the Covid-19 pandemic.
According to the study, Mexico’s deepest vulnerabilities come from the low growth of tax revenues, the economic loss linked to natural disasters, the low level of savings, inequality in access to telecommunications and the little health infrastructure.
The “Vulnerability Atlas” interface allows viewing 55 indicators, disaggregating the five main vulnerability factors of each country, extracting the historical performance and comparing it with the reference points of the developed economies for each country.
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