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The report, presented today at Anton de Kom University in Paramaribo, also highlights that around 1.1% of Surinamese live in extreme poverty, subsisting on less than $2.15 daily. The assessment comes at a crucial time as Suriname is gradually emerging from a severe economic crisis.
17 kwi 2024 · Preliminary findings of a new poverty assessment indicate that in 2022 about 17.5 percent of the population lived below the World Bank’s upper middle-income poverty line of US$6.85 (2017 PPP) per day. [1] Suriname is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to the impact of flooding.
Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population) - Suriname World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform. Data are compiled from official government sources or are computed by World Bank staff using national ( i.e. country–specific ) poverty lines.
1 lip 2024 · This poverty and equity assessment aims to inform efforts to reduce poverty and inequality at what can be an important turning point for Suriname. The assessment draws heavily on a new survey of living conditions (SLC) carried out in 2022 to describe patterns of poverty and inequality.
The index measures the amount of human capital that a child born today can expect to attain by age 18, given the risks of poor health and poor education that prevail in the country where she lives.
Based on these estimates, 2.9 percent of the population in Suriname (17 thousand people in 2021) is multidimensionally poor while an additional 4.0 percent is classified as vulnerable to multidimensional poverty (25 thousand people in 2021).
• About 17.5 percent of Suriname’s population could be classified as poor in 2022, meaning that their consumption was below the national poverty line and the World Bank’s upper-middle-income poverty line. • About 46 percent of Surinamese could be classified as multidimensionally poor. Significant
