Top 3 places in Colombia where people have the highest perception of wealth

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