Poverty in Argentina fell to 28.2% in the second semester of 2025, according to a report released on Tuesday by the government’s statistics institute, INDEC. This is the lowest figure since the first half of 2018.

Meanwhile, extreme poverty affected 6.3% of people living in the country. Extrapolated to the total population, 13.1 million people are living below the poverty line, of whom 2.9 million are living in extreme poverty. 

Compared to the first half of 2025, the poverty rate fell by 3.4 percentage points, when it stood at 31.6%. Extreme poverty fell by 0.6%.

Poverty and extreme poverty depend on households’ ability to afford the basic food basket and the total basic........

© Buenos Aires Herald