Government hopes to reduce poverty to 20% by 2030

Until 2021, poverty affected about 8.5 million people in Peru, 25.9% of the population. It is estimated that approximately three out of every 10 Peruvians are poor.

In 2022, poverty would reach 30% of the population, but the Government expects a significant reduction in poverty over the next seven years. poor in the country.

The government recently announced the National Development and Social Inclusion Policy (PNDIS), with which they hope to reduce poverty by up to 20%.

“We have set five priority goals and 12 symbolic indicators to counter poverty, which must be reduced to less than 20% of Population by 2030,” said the head of the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion, Julio Demartini.

The initiative was reported to include 81 services aimed at achieving early childhood development; physical, cognitive and socio-emotional development of children and adolescents; economic integration of youth and adults; improving the quality of life of the elderly; and optimizing the environmental conditions of the population to ensure its social integration with approaches, inter alia, in the field of human rights, human development, gender, intercultural communication, disability.

What is the current situation with poverty?

If we take into account not only the numbers monetary povertybut indicators of multidimensional poverty, which measure human deficiencies in terms of education, health, and housing, 38.9% of the Peruvian population suffer from multidimensional poverty.

This figure means that almost four out of 10 Peruvians suffer from poverty, which does not allow them to develop their abilities and goes beyond money.

Incidence multidimensional poverty it is higher than the exchange rate in all departments, with the exception of Callao.

According to this indicator, the poorest departments would be Loreto (60.8%), Huanuco (54.1%) and San Martín (53.6%), as Puno, Pasco and Huancavelica are mainly affected by poverty in monetary terms alone.