By Valerie Cifuentes
The Dane’s National Quality of Life Survey (ECV) was recently released, exposing that in 2022 half of Colombians (50.6%) considered themselves impoverished.
This was 3.9 percentage points (pp) higher than in 2021, when the perception of poverty reached 46.7% of heads of households in the country.
According to data from the statistical entity, Risaralda (69.5%), Bogotá (67.7%), and Caldas (66.6%) were the three places in Colombia where people had a higher perception of wealth or a higher proportion of households that did not consider themselves poor in 2022.
After the territories mentioned, the top 5 are completed by Quindío (62.1%) and Cundinamarca (60.8%), according to figures provided by the Dane.
In contrast, the areas where households have the lowest perception of wealth are Vichada (14.2%), Córdoba (16.3%), Chocó (16.6%), La Guajira (19.2%), and Sucre (21.3%).
WHAT IS THE PERCEPTION OF POVERTY IN THE COUNTRYSIDE?
In country terms, 74.1% of heads of household in the Colombian countryside (populated centers and dispersed rural areas) were considered impoverished in 2022.
This is 3.8 pp higher than in the 2021 perception (70.3%).
Disaggregating the Dane information by territory, the rural areas of Bogotá (53.6%), Cundinamarca (47.3%), Risaralda (46.3%), Caldas (45.6%) and Casanare (44.7%) are where there is a higher proportion of households that do not consider themselves in poverty or have a higher perception of wealth.
In contrast, Vichada (5.2%), La Guajira (6.8%), Sucre (7.6%), Córdoba (8.8%), and Cesar (11.6%) have the rural areas with the lowest perception of wealth in the country.
This is according to data corresponding to 2022.
With information from Bloomberg