- Name
- Proportion of population living below national poverty line by sex and age
- Indicator purpose
- Share of employed population living in households below the national poverty line.
- Abstract
- This indicator provides the proportion of the total population and the proportion of the employed population living in households with per-capita consumption or income that is below the national poverty line.
- Contact organization / person
- Statistical Institute of Belize
- Unit of measure
- Percentage (%)
- Other characteristics
- The national poverty rate is the percentage of the total population living below the national poverty line. The rural poverty rate is the percentage of the rural population living below the national poverty line. Urban poverty rate is the percentage of the urban population living below the national poverty line.
- Classification used
- Employed persons: All persons of working age who, during a short reference period such as a day or a week, performed work for others in exchange for pay or profit.
Poverty Line: Threshold below which individuals in the reference population are considered poor and above which they are considered non-poor. The threshold is generally defined as the per-capita monetary requirements an individual needs to afford the purchase of a basic bundle of goods and services.
- Disaggregation
- by sex and age.
by employment status.
by rural/urban areas.
by special groups e.g. persons with disabilities, indigenous people.
- Key statistical concepts
- This indicator is calculated by dividing the number of persons living in households below the poverty line (disaggregated by sex, age and employment status) by the total number of persons (disaggregated by the same sex, age and employment status groups).
- Recommended uses
- A proxy to help policy makers eradicate extreme poverty and hunger by directing their poverty alleviation resources to those closest to the poverty line.
- Other comments
- Cross-country comparisons should not be made using national poverty lines, as these do not reflect any single agreed-upon international norm on poverty. Analyses of trends and patterns of poverty may be informative and, in many cases, more useful for national inferences than analysis of international poverty lines. This indicator is disaggregated by sex and hence it is well-suited for analysis of gender equality issues.
All the metadata shown in this document was gathered from United Nation Statistics Division. The metadata was extracted from https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/.
- Baseline
- 41.3% - poverty and 15.8% indigence (2009)
- Target 2020
- 30% and 10% respectively
- Target 2030
- 10% and 2% by respectively
- Description
- Using CPA - Country Poverty Assessment
