Poverty rate at national poverty lines in Argentina

28.2% of people in Argentina lived below the national poverty line in 2025. The value for 2025 is the lowest since 2017.

Measure: Poverty rate at national poverty lines Unit: % of population Data: 2016 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Argentina, 2025 28.2% % of population
Change from 2024 −9.9percentage points 2024: 38.1%
Median of G20 countries, 2021 14.8% Middle value of 7 countries Not the same period as Argentina (2025).

Poverty rate at national poverty lines in Argentina over time

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% of population. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Poverty rate at national poverty lines (% of population), 2016 to 2025
Period Argentina
2025 28.2%
2024 38.1%
2023 41.7%
2022 39.2%
2021 37.3%
2020 42.0%
2019 35.5%
2018 32.0%
2017 25.7%
2016 30.3%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −9.9 percentage points from 38.1% in 2024.
  • Since 2016, when it was 30.3%, the figure has changed by −2.1 percentage points.

Source and dates

Original producer
World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform, from national sources
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
SI.POV.NAHC · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
2016 to 2025 for Argentina
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform, from national sources