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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.
as well as related poverty lines and indicators. Establishing Surinamese-oriented measurement techniques will not only provide insight into the extent and severity of poverty in Suriname, but will also make it possible to study poor households more closely in terms of their characteristics, patterns, and
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...
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
