Poverty Rate in the DRC Is on the Rise
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is classified as the third-largest country in terms of the number of poor people in the world. The number of poor people has increased significantly in the recent period after the spread of the Coronavirus in the country, especially in a country that is one of the most populous countries in Africa and one of the poorest before the pandemic.
In general, the poverty rate in the DRC reached 73%, which means that 60 million persons out of 84 million people live below the international poverty line estimated at about $1.90 per day, while the eastern Congo region suffers from the spread of armed groups and militias, which affects the quality of the life of the population in that region, where the poverty rate in the Kivu province reached 80%.
NGOs Major Group for Africa expresses its concern about the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s failure to achieve the SDG 1, which aims at eliminating poverty, and recommends the government urgently develop national plans aimed at ending poverty and activating the role of the Statistics Center to count the numbers of the poor people and implement those plans.
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