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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
that the poverty lines and poverty profiles established by it, will allow (easily) implementable methods to be used in social policies, poverty reduction programs and measures.
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.
Population below poverty line. 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. Definitions of poverty vary considerably among nations.
PARAMARIBO, Suriname, July 18th, 2024 – The 2022 Suriname Poverty and Equity Assessment, conducted by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the World Bank, reveals a national poverty rate of 17.5% based on the World Bank's upper-middle-income threshold of $6.85 per day (2017 PPP).
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...
Suriname and formulated the following National Poverty Definition: ‘Poverty of households in Suriname is characterized by a lack of income and/or possession to acquire a basic package of food and other necessary goods and services, which are needed for a dignified life.
