LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 14 July 2017

NICARAGUA | Anti-poverty progress. General poverty afflicted 24.9% of Nicaragua’s 6.2m inhabitants in 2016, down from 29.6% in 2014 and 42.5% in 2009, according to official figures released by the Instituto Nacional de Información de Desarrollo (Inide). Extreme poverty affected 6.9% of the population, down from 8.3% in 2014 and 14.6% in 2009. The Inide report defines the general poverty line as C$18,310.99 (US$608.8) per person per year and extreme poverty as C$11,258.93 (US$374.3). It also shows an improvement in the Gini coefficient (a technical measure of inequality, where 0 represents perfect equality and 100 perfect inequality) which was 0.33 in Nicaragua in 2016, down from 0.38 in 2014.

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