* Mexico’s national council for the evaluation of social development policy (Coneval) has published its latest statistics on poverty, according to which 52.4m people lived in poverty in 2018 (41.9% of the total population), down from 53.4m recorded in 2016. The population living in extreme poverty in Mexico has also dropped, from 9.4m (7.6% of the total population) in 2016, to 9.3m in 2018 (7.4%). Despite the reduction in the last two years, Mexico’s population living below the poverty line in the last decade has increased from 49.5m in 2008 to 52.4m in 2018. However, due to population growth, the percentage of people living in poverty dropped from 44.4% of the total population in 2008 to 41.9% in 2018.
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