31 percent residents of Medellin Colombia live in poverty

They are coming out the latest data on poverty in Dane Medellin and Antioquia. A disturbing picture. Bleak. The program notes that Medellin How Come 2 million 368 thousand inhabitants in the city, 213 000 people (which can be filled five times the Atanasio Girardot stadium), or 9 percent, live in extreme poverty . Other 468 000 (22 percent) live in poverty.

According to the mission for the Junction Series Employment, Poverty and Inequality (Mesep), the capital of Antioquia is one that has the highest inequality in the country. The Gini coefficient, which measures the income gap between rich and poor, is 0.53, which corresponds to a single person has all the income and the rest none.

Under the new methodology for measuring the Dane and National Planning, a Colombian is considered poor if there is an individual maximum income 187,079 pesos a month, and will be below the poverty line if you live on less than 83,581 pesos. For official statistics, the average household of four is not poor if you earn more than 748,316 pesos a month, or 24,944 pesos a day. Nor will he be in want a family with income above 334,324 pesos only at a rate of 11,144 pesos per day. Read Article