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• 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
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.
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.
(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
18 wrz 2021 · Population below poverty line: 70% (2002 est.) Definition: National estimates of the percentage of the population falling below the poverty line are based on surveys of sub-groups, with the results weighted by the number of people in each group.
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 most recent poverty estimates for Suriname are from 2017 and poverty is expected to have increased since then. In 2017, over 26 percent of the population was estimated to live in consumption pov-erty and the Gini coefficient was 0.44. The geographical distribution of poverty was uneven: about half of the population in
