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(i) to study poverty issues in Suriname and (ii) to determine approaches and techniques appropriate to Surinamese conditions for poverty measurement as well as related poverty lines and indicators. Establishing Surinamese-oriented measurement techniques will not only provide insight into the extent
• 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
6 maj 2015 · The Republic of Suriname is located in the northeastern Atlantic Coast of South America. It is a poor country; in 2012, 70 per cent of the population lived below the poverty line.
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.
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).
16 kwi 2024 · About 17.5 percent of the Surinamese population lived below the World Bank's upper middle-income line of US$6.85 (2017 PPP) per day in 2022. The Gini index was approximately 39, close to the World Bank's threshold of 40 for high inequality countries.
Ap-proximately 17.5 percent of the population lived below the upper middle-income poverty line of US$6.85 (2017 PPP) per day in 2022, with 46.5 percent of the population in multidimensional poverty—a broader measure devised by Suriname’s Multidis-ciplinary Poverty Commitee that includes chronic illness, education and ICT skill lev-el, and access...
