HONDURAS POVERTY ASSESSMENT
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Date
2023
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Banco Mundial
Abstract
Honduras, already among the poorest countries in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region, experienced
weak poverty reduction in 2014–19 compared to other countries in the region. International and official
poverty estimates suggest that poverty reduction was stagnant in 2014–19 and not commensurate with the
consistently higher economic growth rates relative to the rest of the region. Nearly half of the Honduran
population (49.5 percent) was living with less than US$6.85 per day (2017 PPP) in 2019. This proportion
was higher than the LAC and Central American average in 2019 (figure ES1). New official poverty estimates1
based on a revised methodology still show that 48 percent of Hondurans were considered moderate poor
in 2019, and over a quarter (25.2 percent) lived in extreme poverty