A report published this Monday by Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT) revealed a new decrease in the poverty rate in Argentina, which reached 31.2% in the second quarter of 2025, marking one of the lowest levels since 2018. In addition, the indigence rate fell to 7.4%.
This figure comes from the poverty nowcast prepared monthly by economist Martín González-Rozada, based on projected microdata from the Permanent Household Survey (EPH) and estimates of the total basic basket (CBT) for Greater Buenos Aires.
The figure is part of a broader estimate indicating that poverty for the first half of 2025 stood at 31.6%. This represents a drop of more than 20 percentage points compared to the same period in 2024, when poverty had reached an alarming 52.9%, following the severe economic crisis inherited from Kirchnerismo.
According to the report, the improvement in the social situation is due to a favorable dynamic between income and prices. While the average total basic basket for the January-June 2025 period increased by 41.8% year-on-year, projected total family income (ITF) rose by 79.7%, which allowed a greater percentage of households to surpass the poverty line.
In the lowest-income sectors (deciles 1 to 4), the improvement was even more pronounced, with an 8.5% semiannual increase in income compared to a 2.05% rise in the food basic basket (CBA).
