The National Insurance Institute released its poverty report for 2018 on Tuesday, showing that economic growth and growth in employment and wages in 2018 led to a rise in the standard of living.
Disposable monetary income per standard person increased by 1.4% in real terms in 2018, and the resulting poverty line also rose. In 2018, the incidence of poverty among families decreased compared to 2017, from 4.18 percent to .18 percent, about 469,400 families, comprising more than 1.8 million people, 841,700 children. The incidence of poverty among individuals remained unchanged at 2.21 percent.