Weekly Report - 26 July 2007 (ISSN 1741-7422)

PERU | Study reveals skewed poverty map. The proportion of Peru's population living under the poverty line fell again in 2006, to 44.5%, from 48.6% in 2004 and 46.7% in 2005. The proportion living in extreme poverty fell less in 2006, to 16.1%, or 1.3 points below the 2005 level. The overall trend obscures hugely disparate evolutions in different areas of the country. For example, poverty in rural areas fell by only 1.6 percentage points over the past two years, to 69.3% - almost 25 points above the national average. The poverty rate in the Andean highlands last year was 63.4%, and that of the eastern jungle, 56.6%, while the rate in the coastal area was only 28.7%.

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