928,000 poor people registered in the fourth quarter of 2023, an increase from 22.1% to 30.1%. The middle class fell from 47.2 to 40.7%.
In 2015, when the statistical series began, the middle class reached 51.9%. Meanwhile, indigence reached 12.2% of people (376,000 people) in the same period. In households headed by women, the incidence of poverty is 26% (compared to 22.6% with a male head) For an unemployed person it is 2.6 times higher than the incidence for the total.