Changes in rural poverty in Perú 2004–2012

Latin American Economic Review

Table 1 Poverty data for 2004–2012 in Peru by urban–rural

	Rural and urban poverty shares		Population shares	Poverty incidence		INEI
	Extreme	Total	Population shares	Extreme	Total	INEI
2004
Rural	0.72	0.39	0.26	0.43	0.85	0.83
Urban	0.28	0.61	0.74	0.06	0.48	0.48
National				0.16	0.57
2012
Rural	0.76	0.47	0.22	0.21	0.55	0.53
Urban	0.24	0.53	0.78	0.02	0.18	0.17
National				0.06	0.26

Source: All the data in this paper come from INEI household surveys using the updated population weights from the 2007 Demographic Census. Poverty estimates are based on family consumption per capita compared to official regional poverty lines. Because we want to disaggregate the data by age and place of residence our poverty estimates are slightly different than the official poverty figures published by INEI and show in the last column of the table. Estimates are based on family income per capita