With
52.9%
, girls, boys and adolescents are the poorest among the urban poor in the entire country.
The province of Chaco leads this dramatic indicator with 74.6%, followed by Formosa with 69.9% and San Luis with 64.4%.
There are slightly more than 13 million children under 17 years of age throughout the country.
From this it can be deduced that at the national level
there are 6.8 million girls, boys and adolescents who live in poor homes,
because these families have incomes below that of a basic food basket.
Thus, of the 18 million poor people nationwide, more than 37% are under 17 years of age.
And of every 10 boys and young people of that age, 5 live in poor homes.
Boys and young people are in this situation despite the collection by families of the Universal Allowance for Children (AUH) that covers
4.3 million boys and adolescents,
the food card, and other social plans.
The figures correspond to the microdata for the 2022 quarter that INDEC released last Friday.
In this measurement, localities in the interior of each province
with more than 2,000 inhabitants were incorporated,
where wage and income levels and precariousness and informality are generally higher than those of large cities or agglomerates.
These microdata were processed by Martin Rozada, director of the Master's in Econometrics at Universidad Di Tella.
And they note that with an average urban poverty of 38.9%,
those under 17 years of age are the most affected.
In the Province of Córdoba this indicator is 54.1%, in the Province of Buenos Aires it is 52.5% and in Santa Fe it is 51.3%.
In CABA, 26.5%.
Consequently, without these plans, indigence and child and adolescent poverty would be much higher, exceeding 70%, while setting the limits of social plans.
As the INDEC measurement incorporates the collection of the half Christmas bonus in the third quarter of each year, it is discounted that
in the fourth quarter the percentages of poverty among those under 17 years of age should be higher,
raising the measurement of the second semester 2022 to more than 53%
In the first half of 2022 it was 51.5%.
This dimension of child and youth poverty has dragged on for decades, worsened by the 2018/2019 recession and the deterioration in income due to the pandemic and quarantine and, despite the rebound in activity in 2021 and 2022, it continues at dramatic levels.
It is that these indicators confirm that it has a
structural character
, marks a present reality and is a factor of reproduction of poverty.
Because the boy and young person who is born and develops with deprivation of food, housing, health or education has a compromised future.
And also the whole society.
The poor boy or adolescent is poor because his parents are.
This means that
the majority of children and adolescents live in homes supported by the unemployed, precarious formal workers or with low and informal salaries
, underemployed and self-employed who also work in the informal sector, without social security coverage.
All of which amplifies the persistence and dimension of poverty.
Although those under 17 years of age stand out for having the highest proportion of poor people,
poverty also increased among the other age groups.
No age group could escape loss of income or social deterioration.
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