Did poverty in Peru return to pre-pandemic levels?
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Question: How did monetary poverty change by department in Peru between 2019 and 2024?
Result: Poverty has not returned to its pre-pandemic level. It rose from 20.2% in 2019 to 30.1% in 2020 and was still 27.6% in 2024: 9.5 million people, 2.9 million more than in 2019. Poverty is clearly higher in 10 of 25 departments and clearly lower in none, and it became more urban: in Lima Metropolitana it doubled, from 14.2% to 28.2%.
The national figure matches INEI’s official poverty rate in all six years, using 205,090 households from the ENAHO survey and 95% confidence intervals that respect the survey design.
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Tools: Python, survey-weighted estimation, D3, GitHub Pages.