52% of the population lives in extreme poverty, according to the 2023 National Survey on Living Conditions. 82.8% of families do not have enough money to purchase the basic basket.
Essential services (water, electricity and sanitation) and health and nutritional problems are the dimensions in which the degree of social vulnerability is greatest, says Encovi researcher Luis Pedro España. After years of economic collapse, which led seven million people to leave the country, there has been a slight recovery, but the number of poor has not decreased.