Mexico shows reduction in poverty levels

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Almost nine million Mexicans have moved out of the lowest economic threshold between 2020 and 2022, according to the latest report of the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (Coneval). teleSUR

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00:00 And Mexico has been able to reduce poverty by 16%.

00:04 According to the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy,

00:08 CONEVAL, almost 9 million Mexicans are no longer poor.

00:12 The figure increases in some cities like the capital, where the reduction reached 21%.

00:18 Based on data from the National Survey of Household Income of the National Institute

00:22 of Statistics and Geography, the percentage of the population living in poverty dropped

00:27 to 36.3% in 2022, compared to 43.9% in 2020.

00:35 Another relevant data presented by CONEVAL is that 1.7 million people throughout the

00:40 country are no longer living in extreme poverty.

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