{"id":269482,"date":"2015-11-24T11:15:16","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T07:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=269482"},"modified":"2015-11-24T11:15:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T07:15:16","slug":"study-found-30-of-armenians-lived-in-poverty-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/11\/24\/study-found-30-of-armenians-lived-in-poverty-in-2014.html","title":{"rendered":"Study Found 30% of Armenians Lived in Poverty in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Armenian households living in poverty totaled 30% in 2014, according to the findings of a study conducted by Armenia&#39;s National Statistical Service (NSS).<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe report, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/news\/press-release\/2012\/11\/28\/social-snapshot-and-poverty-in-armenia\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Social Snapshot and Poverty in Armenia<\/span><\/a><\/em>, published by officials on Monday stated that every three Armenians from ten lived below the upper poverty line of 40,264 drams (less than $84) per month. Compared to the same period in 2013, poverty rate fell 2 percentage points in 2014; however, the total poverty rate was still 2.4 percentage points higher than in 2008, the NSS said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn 2014, upper, lower, and extreme poverty lines per adult equivalent per month were estimated to be &nbsp;AMD 40,264 ($ 83.3), AMD 33,101 ($ 68.5) and AMD 23,384 ($ 48.4) respectively. Those with per adult consumption equivalent below the upper total poverty line were defined as poor; those with per adult consumption equivalent below the lower general poverty line &#8211; as very poor, whereas the extremely poor are defined as those with per adult consumption equivalent below the food poverty line.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThus, the study has found that the number of the poor in Armenia in 2014 was around 900 thousand. The number of the very poor &ndash; 330 thousand, and that of the extremely poor &ndash; around 70 thousand.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;In 2014, poverty rate did not significantly differ between urban (30.0%) and rural (29.9%) locations. Over 2008-2014, poverty growth rate both in urban and rural communities totaled 2.4 percentage points,&rdquo; the report said.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOfficials added that Armenia&#39;s capital city Yerevan had the lowest poverty rate in the country &ndash; 25.2%, which was 1.4 times lower compared to other urban communities. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials added that Armenia&#8217;s capital city Yerevan had the lowest poverty rate in the country \u2013 25.2%, which was 1.4 times lower compared to other urban communities&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":269470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[65942,25281,10708,18094,13250,11547],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}