Venezuelan cities with the highest poverty rate 2021

The municipalities of Manapiare and Bolívar, located in the Venezuelan states of Amazonas and Falcón, respectively, registered the highest share of population living under the poverty line in the country in 2021. That year, almost the entire population of these municipalities was reported to be living in poverty. All the 25 Venezuelan cities listed in this statistic had at least 99.7 percent of their population living under the poverty line.

Municipalities with the highest share of population living in poverty in Venezuela in 2021

Characteristic	Share of population
Manapiare	99.98%
Bolívar*	99.98%
Jesús Enrique Lossada	99.95%
Peña	99.95%
Ocumare de la Costa de Oro	99.94%
Andrés Eloy Blanco	99.94%
Andrés Mata	99.94%
Benítez	99.94%
Bolívar***	99.94%
Cajigal	99.94%
Mejía	99.94%
Ribero	99.94%
Píritu****	99.93%
Alto Orinoco	99.93%
Bolívar**	99.92%
Monte Carmelo	99.9%
Bruzual	99.9%
Federación	99.89%
Uracoa	99.87%
La Trinidad	99.84%
Tocópero	99.83%
Ezequiel Zamora	99.83%
Sotillo	99.83%
Tovar	99.83%
Píritu*****	99.83%

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Release date

October 2022

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Region

Venezuela

Survey time period

2021

Supplementary notes

The data shows the percentage of the total population that belongs to households with a total per capita income below the poverty line.
The release date is the date of access.
* Bolívar (Falcón).
** Bolívar (Sucre).
*** Bolívar (Yaracuy).
**** Píritu (Anzoátegui).
***** Píritu (Falcón).

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