Latin American Economic Review

Table 2 Comparison of poverty rates in LAC in 2015.

From: Poverty alleviation strategies under informality: evidence for Latin America

Country	1.90 USD PPP line			3.20 USD PPP line
Country	Headcount	Poverty gap	Pov. gap sq.	Headcount	Poverty gap	Pov. gap sq.
Argentina^a	1.71	0.97	0.78	4.50	1.81	1.17
Bolivia	7.11	3.44	2.30	12.86	6.07	3.95
Brazil	4.34	2.02	1.34	9.28	3.91	2.41
Chile	1.30	0.76	0.61	3.07	1.30	0.88
Colombia	5.46	2.24	1.41	13.08	5.04	2.87
Costa Rica	1.62	0.64	0.41	4.15	1.50	0.84
Dominican Republic	1.94	0.48	0.20	6.87	1.99	0.86
Ecuador	4.81	2.18	1.49	11.78	4.54	2.70
El Salvador	1.92	0.41	0.14	9.81	2.44	0.92
Guatemala^a	9.48	2.76	1.27	25.34	8.72	4.22
Honduras	17.75	6.42	3.36	34.83	14.49	8.15
Mexico^a	5.65	2.1	1.24	15.75	5.41	2.86
Nicaragua^a	3.62	0.92	0.39	13.82	3.86	1.67
Panama	2.21	0.59	0.29	7.03	2.21	1.01
Paraguay	2.52	0.71	0.34	7.39	2.38	1.12
Peru	2.99	0.77	0.31	9.31	2.95	1.31
Uruguay	0.27	0.10	0.06	1.38	0.36	0.16

PPP purchasing power parity. Unit of measure is the FGT index multiplied by one hundred
^aData for 2014

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