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Argentina Poverty Reaches 32 Percent of it´s population

First Data Release in Three Years

In a survey of 27.2 million people in 31 urban areas, 8.8 million people, or 32.2 percent, were below the poverty line.

Just over 6 percent qualified as "indigent" in the second quarter of 2016, according to the government statistics agency, Indec.

"Knowing that one in three Argentines find themselves below the poverty line is something that has to hurt us, something that has to make us angry, and that has to get us to commit to work together," Macri said.

Argentina's poverty rate is substantially higher than that of neighboring Chile, which brought poverty down to 11.7 percent in 2015 from 14.4 percent in 2013. In the United States, 13.5 percent of the population lived in poverty in 2015, down from 14.8 percent in 2014.

Indec defines the poverty line as whether a household has enough income to afford the food it needs, as well as non-food goods considered essential. Indec's 2010 census put Argentina's total population at 40.1 million.

Source: VOA