The percentage of poor people in March 2023 decreased by 0.18 points to 8.15 percent

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Release Date	:	July 17, 2023
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The North Sumatra poverty rate has decreased by 0.18 points, from 8.33 percent in September 2022 to 8.15 percent in March 2023. This poverty rate is equivalent to 1.24 million people in March 2023, or reduced by around 22.4 thousand soul in the last semester.

The percentage of poor people in March 2023 in urban areas was 8.23 percent, and in rural areas it was 8.03 percent. In urban areas it decreased by 0.40 points, while in rural areas it actually increased by 0.07 points when compared to September 2022.

The Poverty Line in March 2023 was recorded at IDR 602,999/capita/month with a composition of the Food Poverty Line of IDR 458,706 (76.07%) and the Non-Food Poverty Line of IDR 144,293, or around 23.93 percent .

In the period September 2022-March 2023, both the Poverty Depth Index (P1) and the Poverty Severity Index (P2) experienced a decline. P1 fell from 1.411 in September 2022 to 1.261 in March 2023, while P2 fell from 0.339 to 0.324. A decrease in P1 indicates that there is a tendency for the average consumption expenditure of the poor to keep up with the increase in the poverty line, or in other words, the gap between the expenditure of the poor and the poverty line is decreasing. Furthermore, P2 - which provides an illustration of the distribution of consumption expenditure among the poor - a decrease in this index indicates reduced inequality in consumption expenditure among the poor, or in other words, the distribution of consumption expenditure is getting better or more even

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