1. Between 2018 and 2020, the percentage of the population living in poverty went from 41.9% to 43.9%.
2. Poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon that includes aspects related to living conditions that violate people’s dignity, limit their fundamental rights and freedoms, impede the satisfaction of their needs and make their full social integration impossible, affirms Coneval.
3. Between 2018 and 2020, in 19 of the 32 states there was an increase in the percentage of the population living in poverty.
4. The rural population presented a decrease in this indicator, going from 57.7% to 56.8%, while the urban population went from 36.8% to 40.1%.
5. Between 2018 and 2020, the percentage of the population living in poverty of adolescents and young people increased from 42.3% to 46.1%, the same situation for those under 18 years of age and adults who went from 50.3% to 52.6% and from 36.5% to 39.5%, respectively.
The only group that presented a decrease in this indicator was that of the elderly, from 43.2% to 37.9%.
6. Both men and women showed an increase in the percentage of the population living in poverty.
¨In the case of women, the percentage went from 42.6% to 44.4%, while for men it went from 41.2% to 43.4% during this period.
In extreme poverty, between 2018 and 2020, an increase in this indicator is observed for both women and men, going from 7.0% to 8.5% for women and from 7.0% to 8.6% for men.