What percentage of Cubans live in poverty?

[timbaly]

Lately I've been trying to find out what percentage of Cubans live under the poverty line, but on the CIA website and many others it says "% NA". Since the poverty level is decided by each individual country I was wondering if Cuba even has an official poverty line at all. The % of Cubans under poverty during Batistas regime would be a nice figure to have as well.

[Hampton]

According to this (http://members.attcanada.ca/~dchris/CubaFAQ401.html)

In its 1997 Report of Human Development, the United Nations Development Program established a new definition of poverty that uses the availability of basic health services, life expectancy, illiteracy and low birth-weight children as a more accurate measure of poverty than comparisons of low income alone. Although we have not located low birth weight data on Cuba, the remaining combined indicators are testimony to the outstanding performance of the Cuban health care system worldwide.

According to this more accurate study of 78 underdeveloped countries, Cuba ranks second among the top 5 nations that have reduced their poverty rates below 10 percent:

Cuba 5.1%

http://www.digitas.harvard.edu/~perspy/old/issues/2001/feb/hdi1.gif

Taken from here (http://www.digitas.harvard.edu/~perspy/old/issues/2001/feb/hdi.html)


Chile, like Cuba and Guyana, has been able to reduce the number of people living without access to safe water, sanitation, health services and other necessities to 10% or less of its population. But these other countries were able to do so with average levels of income much below Chile's.


In these nations, less than 10% of people live in absolute deprivation—lacking water, health services, and other basic necessities of life.Some of these, like Guyana and Cuba, are socialist countries; others, like Costa Rica, Uruguay, and Trinidad, have a long history of extensive social welfare provisions and a substantial public sector.

[Jesus Christ]

great specs hammie

i saw on the news the other day(CNN) that only 3% of American live in poverty
BULLSHIT, it made me so made
it has to be at least a 13% poverty rate
almost 30 million are poverty stricken

[Marxist in Nebraska]

Over 40 million Americans have no health insurance, and it is hard to say how many more are under-insured...

There were some good articles in a thread in Newswire from the British newspaper The Guardian that had other information about millions of Americans who are not living the "Dream."

[Hate Is Art]

any one got any hard figures of americans living in poverty?

can someone give a definition of how they would define poverty

[Hampton]

The poverty rate for all people living in the United States fell from 11.8 percent in 1999 to 11.3 percent in 2000, according to a March 2001 survey of approximately 50,000 households. The survey, taken annually since 1967, represents statistics from the previous year. The lowest poverty rate ever recorded by the survey was 11.1 percent in 1973, statistically no lower than the 2000 mark.

Source (http://www.missoulian.com/specials/population/926.html)

Another link (http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/1999pres/19990930c.html)


The data released today show that poverty rose among the four basic measures of child poverty.... The [estimated] number of such children who were poor rose 400,000... the [estimated] poverty rate for all children under 18 [rose] from 16.3 percent to 16.7 percent.... Increases in poverty were largest among blacks. The [estimated] black poverty rate rose from 22.7 percent in 2001 to 24 percent in 2002, and the number of blacks who were poor increased by 500,000 or 700,000, depending on which definitional category of blacks is used.... The [estimated] number of poor Hispanics increased by 600,000... from 21.4 percent in 2001 to 21.8 percent in 2002, but this increase was not statistically significant....

Source (http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/2003_archives/002326.html)

The offical povery line in 1992, the poverty line for a family of four was $14,335...so adjusted to inflation it'll be a little more I suppose.

If you want numbers....About 1.7 million more people dropped below the poverty line from 2001 to 2002, while median income went down as well, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Add those who dropped and those who were already under it creaters the number of.....drum roll please..............

31.1 million

There is nearly unanimous agreement among experts and politicians that the method used to measure poverty, which is based on spending habits of the 1950s, is flawed and outdated.

Taken from her. (http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0927poverty27.html)

[timbaly]

CIA website (http://cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/us.html)

According to them those under the poverty line in the USA is 12.7%

all nations (http://cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/2046.html)

list of all nations poverty rates from CIA.gov

[timbaly]

Where can I see the complete results of the study of poverty in underdeveloped countries? I need to compare its findings on Cuba to that pf Jamacia.

[EneME]

And this doesn't include the countless of "illegal" immigrants who are living in the most horrendous state and aren't even included because they are like ghosts cuz they don't exist....but they still pay taxes, PHEW thank goodness for that....(sarcasm there by the by lol)