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6 hours agoAccording to the latest report, 23 percent of Kosovo's population lives in poverty
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)The World Bank in co-operation with the Kosovo Statistics Agency (ASK) has published “Poverty Results in Consumer in the Republic of Kosovo in 2012-2017”. This report is the update of the poverty assessment in Kosovo, published in April 2017. Poverty assessment in Kosovo is done based on results from polls [...]
This publication provides data on absolute poverty in Kosovo in 2012-2017, where consumption is used as a measure of individual welfare or wealth. Two limits of poverty have been used in this report, a limit considered adequate for meeting fundamental needs and a low limit of extreme poverty.
Based on the Family Economics Budget Survey data (ABEF) 2017, it is estimated that 18.0 per cent of Kosovo's population lives below the poverty line, with 5.1 per cent of the population under the border of extreme poverty.
By comparing the data over the years, you can see that the poverty rate has dropped by about 5.9 percentage points from 2012 to 2013, then it has marked growth from 2013 to 2014 to 3.7 percentage points and then has dropped to 3.9 in 2014 in 2015, then it marked a 0.1 percentage point between 2015 and 2016, and again it scored 1.2 percentage points between 2016 and 2017. The scales of poverty and extreme poverty are higher in rural settlements.
Cofficient gender shows that inequality in Kosovo has dropped from 2012 to 2013, has seen growth from 2013 to 2014, and then decline in 2015 and 2016. In 2017, however, the trend returned, and general inequality grew. This means that throughout the period 2012-2017, inequality dropped just a little bit. It is also noteworthy that in the six - year period, inequality in urban areas has been higher than in rural areas. Some reductions in inequality were observed in rural areas, but this was compensated for increasing inequality in urban areas.
The highest poverty rate has been observed among the family economies with seven and more members, except for 2015 and 2016, where poverty rates were highest among the five-member family economies. Instead, poverty rates were lower among three or fewer family economies.
The lowest poverty rate in 2017 is among the family economies that depend mainly on public sector salary employment, foreign income (repressions), private family economy businesses and agriculture. On the other hand, the poverty rate is the highest among family economies, which are the main source of income in social aid. Although most of the poor are focused on the family economies where their main source of income comes from salaries in the private sector (34.7 percent), about 11.8 percent of the poor report social assistance income as the main source of family income.
