"It is estimated that in 2020, 13.1% of the population in Cape Verde lived below the international poverty line [with less than US$1.90 per day].
"Of this population, 8.2% was in urban areas and 24.3% in rural areas," says the INE annual report, which compiles various statistics, consulted by Lusa.
In 2019, before the effects of the economic crisis caused by the covid-19 pandemic, this proportion, according to INE, was 12.7%, and in the previous year, it was 11.1%.
In 2017, extreme poverty affected 13.7% of the Cape Verdean population, and . . .
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