In the urban area, it rose to 26.4% while in the rural sector it fell to 39.8%.
The National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI) reported that monetary poverty affected 29% of the Peruvian population in 2023, which registered an increase of 1.5 percentage points compared to 2022 when it stood at 27.5%. .
In the urban area, monetary poverty was 26.4%, which increased by 2.3 percentage points compared to the previous year; while, in the rural area it was 39.8% and decreased by 1.3 percentage points.
INEI specified that the population living in poverty reached 9 million 780,000 people, a figure higher by 596,000 people, compared to the year 2022 (9 million 184,000 people).
Likewise, he announced that the population in extreme poverty, in the year 2023, was 5.7%, affecting 1 million 922,000 people, that is, 249,000 more people than in the year 2022 (1 million 673,000 people). .
Income and expenses
Real income per inhabitant decreased by 1% between 2022 and 2023 (from US$305.8 to US$302.7). Real income per inhabitant in the rest of the urban area decreased by 3%, going from US$ 327.2 to US$ 317. However, in Metropolitan Lima and the Constitutional Province of Callao it grew by 0.7% (from US$ 348. 8 to US$ 351), followed by the rural area by 0.3%, increasing from US$ 184.3 to US$ 184.5.
Meanwhile, real monthly spending per inhabitant decreased by 0.7%, going from US$ 229.9 in 2022 to US$ 228.3 in 2023. In Metropolitan Lima and the Constitutional Province of Callao, real spending per monthly capita decreased by 0.4% (from US$ 256.3 to US$ 255), for the years 2022 and 2023, followed by the rest of the urban population by 1.8%, decreasing from US$ 246.5 to US$ 241 However, it increased in rural areas by 1.4%, going from US$ 147.9 to US$ 150.
Basic basket
Of the total of 110 main products that make up the basic food basket, 95 registered price increases, seven reduced prices and eight showed no variation. Among the products that presented the greatest price variation between 2022 and 2023, the highlights were tomatoes (30%), head onions (27.3%), bulk chicken eggs (24.1%) and lemons (21 .4%), at the national level.
