This was revealed this Thursday afternoon by INDEC, when announcing the results of the survey that corresponds to the second semester of 2022. The data reflects a significant drop: in one year, some 14,000 families were lifted out of poverty.
The National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec) revealed this Thursday afternoon that Mar del Plata has 199,171 poor families and another 54,250 people in a situation of indigence.
By disclosing the data from the survey it did during the second half of 2022, the agency found that poverty and indigence affect 30.4 percent and 8.4 percent of the city’s population, respectively.
The recently released poverty rate marks an improvement for the second consecutive year. In the year-on-year comparison, it is evident that, despite the inflationary context, some 14,175 families improved their economic situation and stopped being poor.
In the second semester of 2021, there were 205,326 people in the city who could not cover their basic needs. And in the second half of 2020, there were 265,580 in this condition.
The data on indigence, on the other hand, reflects a deterioration of the social fabric. General Pueyrredon had closed 2021 with 48,999 homeless people and now that number has increased by 5,251 people.
For INDEC, the concept of indigence line (LI) seeks to establish whether households have sufficient income to cover a food basket capable of satisfying a minimum threshold of energy and protein needs. In this way, households that do not exceed that threshold or line are considered indigent.
The information is known shortly after the Government also communicated the results of the Permanent Household Survey for the fourth quarter of 2022, where Mar del Plata was ranked as the city with the most unemployment in the country: it has 28,000 people without work.