Overview
- Official data show monetary poverty at 25.7% in 2025, or about 8.8 million people, which is 5.5 points above the 2019 level.
- ComexPerú reported Monday that multidimensional poverty reached 26.2% in 2025, exceeding the monetary rate and reflecting gaps in health, schooling and housing as access to piped water and sewer fell from 2019 levels.
- Poverty has grown more urban, with 23.4% of city residents poor versus 35.5% in rural areas, and Lima now holds 32.6% of all poor people with its rate rising to 27.3%.
- Seven regions post the highest incidence of poverty—Ayacucho, Cajamarca, Puno, Huancavelica, Loreto, Pasco and Huánuco—underscoring deep service and infrastructure deficits.
- Experts link the weak decline to low-quality jobs, high informality and political instability, while 32.8% of Peruvians remain vulnerable to falling back into poverty and programs built for rural areas miss new urban needs.