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The map displayed here shows how Population below poverty line varies by country. The shade of the country corresponds to the magnitude of the indicator. The darker the shade, the higher the value.
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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.
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.
• 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
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).
Suriname. The Human Capital Index (HCI) database provides data at the country level for each of the components of the Human Capital Index as well as for the overall index, disaggregated by gender. The index measures the amount of human capital that a child born today can expect to attain by age 18, given the risks of poor health and poor ...
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.
