Poverty in Colombia Part 1: the starvation capital
by Adriaan Alsema September 12, 2021
Poverty in Quibdo soared to the point that three in 10 people in the city in west Colombia are trying to live off less than $39 (COP149,000) a month last year.
According to a study by the Red de Ciudades Como Vamos, the economic crisis that followed the coronavirus pandemic had a devastating impact on poverty in all Colombia’s provincial capitals.
Nowhere, however, did the poverty rate reach the level of the capital of the Choco province where 66% of the 131,000 residents found themselves living below the poverty line in 2020.
Only one third of Quibdo’s residents had a monthly income that was higher than $106 (COP407,000), according to the Red de Ciudades Como Vamos.
More than 86 thousand people earned less than the municipal poverty line. Of these people, almost 40,000 found themselves living in extreme poverty and on the brink of starvation.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/poverty-in-colombia-part-1-the-starvation-capital/
