Tag: Brazilean poverty

• Thursday, February 16th 2023 - 11:44 UTC

  Unicef says Brazil has 32mn children and adolescents in poverty

  

  According to the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef), 63% of Brazil's boys and girls live in poverty, which is tantamount to around 32 million children and adolescents, Agencia Brasil reported.

• Wednesday, November 8th 2017 - 09:59 UTC

  An estimated third of the Brazilian population live below the poverty line

  

  A new system implemented by the World Bank to measure the number of people who live below the poverty line has meant that in Brazil the number has risen from 8.9 million to 45.5 million, which is almost a third of the population.

• Friday, November 7th 2014 - 22:44 UTC

  Despite Rousseff, extreme poverty grows for the first time in a decade

  

  The number of Brazilians living in extreme poverty grew for the first time in a decade, according to government figures. The Institute of Economic Research reported that the number of people in households with incomes below the poverty threshold of 30 dollars rose from 10.1 to 10.5 million people, which means a 3.7% increase.

• Wednesday, August 22nd 2012 - 05:20 UTC

  Brazil despite its economic success remains one of the inequality champions

  

  Brazil might be the leading economy in Latin America and has had a significant performance in reducing poverty in recent years, but it still remains among the countries with he highest inequality in the region together with Guatemala, Honduras and Colombia, points out the UN-Habitar report.