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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.
Suriname’s Multidisciplinary Poverty Committee, established in 2016, proposed a national poverty measurement method and poverty line, which was updated in 2023 (Sobhie and Kisoensingh 2023). The national poverty line was determined based on a basic needs approach, applying the food-energy intake method.
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 report finds that historical inequities are still driving patterns of poverty and inequality. More than one in four Surinamese in the interior of the country lives below the upper-middle-income line, compared to about one in six at the national level.
• 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
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.
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).
