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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.
The national poverty rate is the percentage of the total population living below the national poverty line. TARGET 1.2 By 2030, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions.
The 2022 Suriname Survey of Living Conditions - administered to a nationally representative sample, which included 7,713 individuals from 2,540 households - was developed to support poverty analysis as well as policy planning and is a helpful tool for policy makers to facilitate fact-based decision making.
1 gru 2023 · The first, conservative estimates indicate that for 18.9 percent of Suriname’s population the daily value of their real consumption lies below this threshold. The picture does not differ much when applying Suriname’s national moderate poverty line or the IDB’s moderate poverty line. [1]
To estimate poverty rates, research teams looked at the value of total daily real consumption and classified people as poor if this value lies below a certain threshold – the poverty line. Estimating the total value of real consumption is challenging.
