The poverty indicator in Argentina revealed that poverty during the first quarter of 2024 would have reached 55.5% of the population, while destitution reached 17.5% of the peoples. These estimates were carried out by the Argentine Social Debt Observatory of the Argentine Catholic University (ODSA-UCA).
In the shared survey it was indicated that Almost 25 million people, residing in the urban area of the country, would have been in poverty below the total basic basket.to the. The percentages revealed are largely attributed to the impact of inflation in recent months and the rise in the food sector that affected the lowest strata of society.
The same study assures thatSome 7.8 million people are in a state of extreme poverty or destitution, below the basic food basket (CBA). In the third quarter of 2023 the poverty indicator was 44.7%.
“Total food insecurity for urban areas surveyed by the ODSA-UCA survey, It reaches 24.7% of people, 20.8% of households and 32.2% of children and adolescents. On the other hand, 10.9% of people, 8.8% of households and 13.9% of children and adolescents (NNyA) are in an even more serious situation, with severe food insecurity. . When considering the AMBA, the total food insecurity values are located at 26.4% of people, 21.8% of households and 35% of children and adolescents. When considering severe food insecurity, they are at 9.9%, 12.7% and 16.5%, respectively,” details the report titled “Structural social debts in Argentine society.”
For its part, the Observatory indicates that the values of food deprivation “suffered by the population try to be compensated with actions carried out at different levels of the State. Considering children and adolescents, 42.6% of them reside in households that receive the AUH+Food Card, 50% attend school cafeterias, 36.7% receive boxes or bags of food from cafeterias and 11.1% receive boxes or bags of food from non-school cafeterias; adding many homes to more than one benefit.”
Poverty in Argentina: mortality rate and education
The ODSA warns: “The infant mortality rate, those under 1 year of age and those under 5 years of age, presents a general improvement over time, 2005 to 2022, but greater heterogeneity between the situation of each of our provinces. In general, when considering the data by province, it is observed that the high levels of infant mortality “They tend to correlate with high levels of monetary destitution.”
In addition, the survey also mentions the state of education and work in Argentina. There the data emerges that 23% of boys and girls between 3 and 5 years old “do not attend formal educational establishments”, while 0.4% of those between 6 and 12 years old do not go to primary school. . It adds that 9.1% attend primary school at an older age and 35.3% of young people between 18 and 29 years old did not finish secondary school. » These indicators express adverse values despite the fact that the general public management system (80.7% of students under 18 years of age) is strengthened by the action of private management (12.6% in private secular and 6.8% in religious establishments)”, he emphasizes.
Poverty in Argentina: employment status and drug sales
On the other hand, the same report refers to the labor scenario and explains that “the inequalities of the productive structure and the low generation of employment and quality employment, 32.5% of employed people are workers who live in households in poverty30.9% of employed people work in the social economy and, when considering the economically active population, 26.5% have precarious employment and 24.3% have unstable underemployment.
Another concern they reflect is the sale and trafficking of drugs in the most vulnerable layers of the population of our country. According to the UCA “it has become a scourge that increases with the passage of time.” The percentage of household representatives indicated that “drugs are sold near their home increased from 22.8% in 2021, to 26.5% in 2022 and to 31.3% in 2023.”
«In 2023, only 29.2% of household representatives in urban neighborhoods reported drug sales, when 62% of those in emergency settlements and 70.5% of residents in housing complexes did. monoblock social housing, the latter being structures with multiple adverse particularities and the object of special attention,” they concluded.
