Argentina's poverty rate rises to 32.3%

The poverty rate in Argentina in the first six months of 2026 rose from 28.2% to 32.3%. This follows from the data published by the Institute of Statistics and Census of the Republic, writes sb.by.

According to TASS, the report states:

“The proportion of households below the poverty line has reached 24.4 per cent. They represent 32.3% of the population. In this group, 5.6 per cent of households live below the poverty line and 7.5 per cent of the population live there.”.

The Institute of Statistics studied the situation in 31 urban areas. The researchers found that 9.7 million people live below the poverty line. At the end of 2025, this figure was 8.5 million people.

In September 2025, researchers at the Catholic University of Argentina questioned the scale of poverty reduction, pointing to a change in the methodology for collecting income data and using a formula based on consumption patterns from 2004 to 2005 to calculate the base basket.