[NYTr] Mexican Poverty Rates Vary Widely by Region
 
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 19:14:44 -0400

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AP - Jul 4, 2007

Mexican officials say poverty levels vary greatly by geography

ASSOCIATED PRESS

MEXICO CITY - Poverty affects nearly half of Mexico's population, but 
levels vary significantly throughout the country, reaching their 
highest in the southeast, officials said Wednesday.

The southern state of Chiapas, with a 75.7 percent poverty rate, is 
Mexico's poorest, while the northern border state of Baja California 
has the lowest poverty, at 9.2 percent, according to The National 
Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy.

The council released data in the form of maps that, for the first 
time, pinpointed poverty rates at the local and statewide level in 
the country's 31 states and the capital, Mexico City.

According to the maps, which the council based on national poverty 
figures in 2005, the poorest states after Chiapas are Guerrero, 
Oaxaca and Tabasco. All three are in the south and have poverty rates 
of at least 59 percent.

The least impoverished states, besides Baja California, are Baja 
California Sur and the northeastern state of Nuevo Leon, with 
respective poverty rates of 27.5 percent and 23.5 percent. Mexico 
city places third with 31.8 percent.

In 2005, poverty affected nearly 45 million people in Mexico, or 
about 47 percent of its population. Of that number, 18.2 percent live 
in conditions of "extreme poverty," described as being too poor to 
even feed one's family.

"Mexico is a country of great contrasts. ... The inequality is 
embarrassing," council representative Juan Angel Rivera said.

       
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