{"id":3147,"date":"2017-06-10T12:57:52","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T20:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/?p=3147&lang=en"},"modified":"2017-06-10T12:57:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T20:57:52","slug":"guatemalas-poverty-statistics-compared-to-the-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/economy\/guate-in-graphs\/guatemalas-poverty-statistics-compared-to-the-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Guatemala’s poverty statistics compared to the region"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rates of poverty\u00a0and extreme poverty in Guatemala have both been increasing, while the rates of most other countries in the region are decreasing.. The chart below from ECLAC\u2019s 2015 Social Panorama report<\/a>\u00a0also shows\u00a0that the poor are getting poorer in Guatemala, while in most other countries in the region this is not the case either.<\/p>\n

The chart measures poverty and indigence, or extreme poverty. Its two \u201cpoverty headcount ratios,\u201d are approximations of the poverty rate. ECLAC considers \u201cindigence\u201d the inability to meet basic nutritional needs, while \u201cpoverty\u201d is defined as the inability to meet \u201cbasic non-nutritional needs<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cpoverty gap\u201d figures in the chart show how far away the poor are on average from the poverty line. The poverty gap figure for Guatemala in 2014, for example, is 33.1%, meaning that poor households on average made it to 66.9% of poverty line income.<\/p>\n

The poverty figures are based on ECLAC calculations designed to facilitate international comparisons. The independent calculations of each nation are in the next section. Guatemala\u2019s official data (blow) show similar poverty rate data, but differ on the data for extreme poverty.<\/p>\n

First, Guatemala\u2019s figures and Latin America\u2019s regional averages according to ECLAC:<\/p>\n

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Guatemala\u2019s rates of poverty and extreme poverty are around three times Latin America\u2019s averages. Further, Latin America\u2019s poverty rate has been cut by approximately 35% and its extreme poverty rate has been cut by approximately 40%, while Guatemala\u2019s rates have climbed.<\/p>\n

Below are those figures compared to other countries in the region. The comparison shows that Guatemala is one of the only countries where poverty is increasing. (The others are Paraguay, Venezuela, and neighbors El Salvador and Honduras, but Guatemala\u2019s rates appear to be increasing most rapidly.)<\/p>\n

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Here are the Guatemalan government\u2019s official figures. Indigence is again defined as the inability to access basic nutrition, as estimated by the \u201ccanasta b\u00e1sica<\/a>,\u201d a measure of the cost of the food necessary to provide basic nutrition. Poverty is defined as the inability to meet access basic household needs, like spending on school fees, clothing, and transport.<\/p>\n

(For more on these measures and rising food costs, see Guatemala in Graphs: Inequality.)<\/p>\n

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Here are again is the ECLAC data:<\/p>\n

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The two charts agree on the poverty rate, and that rates of poverty and extreme poverty are increasing, but Guatemalan government statistics put the rate of extreme poverty at 23.4% instead of the 38 – 46% figures offered by ECLAC.<\/p>\n

The urban\/rural divide and its racial dimension is discussed further in Guatemala in Graphs: Inequality.<\/p>\n

Below is the complete graph that compares 18 countries in Latin America.<\/p>\n

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Rates of poverty\u00a0and extreme poverty in Guatemala have both been increasing, while the rates of most other countries in the region are decreasing.. The chart below from ECLAC\u2019s 2015 Social Panorama report\u00a0also shows\u00a0that the poor are getting poorer in Guatemala, while in most other countries in the region this is not the case either. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[829],"tags":[844,836,783,560,834,519,843,830,842],"class_list":["post-3147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guate-in-graphs","tag-data","tag-eclac","tag-gdp","tag-guatemala-en","tag-latin-america","tag-poverty","tag-region","tag-social-spending","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3166,"href":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147\/revisions\/3166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}