Multidimensional poverty in 2024 closed by 11.5 %, with a reduction of 0.6 % percentage points compared to 12.1 % of 2023. It means that 251 thousand people exceeded that indicator, the national Administrative Department of Statistics revealed, DANE. According to the multidimensional poverty index (IPM), while in 2023 there were 6.269,000 people affected by that indicator in the country, in 2024 Figure was reduced to 6’018,000.In the headwaters the reduction was 175 thousand people who left the IPM in 2024, since it went from 3’339,000 two years ago to 3’164,000 last year, while in populated and rural centers dispersed the reduction reached 77 thousand people: 230,000 affected in 2023 to 2,853,000 in 2024 in 2024.
In percentage, in municipal headwaters the IPM reached 7.8 %, with a reduction of 0.5 percentage points, compared to 8.3 % of a year ago, and in populated and rural centers dispersed the figure reached 24.3 %, that is, 0.8 pp compared to 25.1 % of 2023. The director of the Dane, Piedad Urdinola, explained that the IPM is an indicator that compares the conditions that compares the conditions that compares the conditions Socioeconomic of Colombian households not only based on the entry of the family, but also monitor other variables that allow designing public policies.The IPM is composed of 5 dimensions and 15 indicators, thus:- educational conditions: illiteracy, under educational achievement.- Conditions of childhood and youth: school absence, school lag, barriers to access to first childhood care services. work: Informal work, long-term unemployment.- Health: Without health insurance, health access barriers given a need.- Housing conditions and public services: without access to improved water source, inadequate elimination of excreta, inappropriate material of floors, inappropriate wall material, critical overcrowding. of the indicators.
The variations
The director of the DANE explained that of the 15 indicators that make up the IPM at the national level, there was an increase in the barriers to health services, with a variation of 1.1 pp at 1.8 % of 2023 to 2.9 % in 2024. In change, the highest decreases were presented in the school lag indicators with variation of 2.3 pp after 24.3 % in 2023 to 2223 to 2223 to 2223 to 2223 to 2223 to 2223 to 2223 to 2223 to 2223 to 2223 to 2223 to 2223 to 2223 2024; Critical overcrowding had a 1 pp decrease from 7.1 % in 2023 to 6.1 % in 2024. The incidence of IPM according to the sex of the head of household showed that households with male headquarters went from 11.2 % in 2023 to 10.4 % in 2024, and those of female headquarters passed from 13.2 % in 2023 to 12.9 %.
The IPM by regions
The DANE study indicates that the Amazon and Orinoquía region registered the highest variation of IPM decreased by 24.1 % in 2023 to 20.3 % in 2024, that is, a reduction of 3.8 pp that, statistically, is a significant variation. The Caribbean region decreased -1.6 pp by 20.1 % in 2023 to 18.5 % in 2024. The Pacific region reduced at 0.8 pp the IPM from 12.6 % in 2023 to 11.8 % last year. The eastern region went from 11.1 % two years ago to 8.8 % last year, a 2.3 pp difference
Meanwhile, the central region increased the 0.6 % indicator when rising from 10.2 % in 2023 to 10.8 % in 2024, and Bogotá also did so in 1.8 pp with a variation of 3.6 % in 2023 to 5.4 % in 2024.
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