LIMA Peru's poverty rate dropped to 31.3 percent in 2010, representing a decrease of 17.4 percent since 2005 and a drop of 23.5 percent since 2001, according to A report released today by the National Statistics Institute (INEI) and endorsed by the World Bank. According
said the head of INEI, Anibal Sánchez, 9.2 million people in Peru are poor and spend less than the cost of the minimum consumption basket (food and other products), estimated at $ 95 a month.
According to these figures, more than 900,000 people out of poverty over the past year.
The country's poorest regions, with poverty rates between 55 and 66 percent, remain Huancavelica, Apurimac, Huanuco, Ayacucho and Puno, all in the southern highlands.
In the case of Huancavelica, the most critical area of \u200b\u200bthe country, poverty fell by 24 percentage points since 2005, the going from 90 percent to 66 percent between 2005-2010.
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