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Data on Poverty Trends in Serbia

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Statements on PRS

“By participating in the drafting process, and now in the implementation of PRS as well, the Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities directly contribute to enabling local self-governments to tackle with accumulated problems. As a level of authority closest to citizens, towns and municipalities have the particular responsibility to contribute to a faster improvement of life quality, by developing their own local strategic documents in which causes and possible solutions for poverty reduction will be identified.”

Đorđe Staničić,
Secretary General of the Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities

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Data for 2006
  • In 2006 8.8% of Serbian population was classified as poor, since their consumption per consumer unit was on average below the poverty line.
  • According to the Household Budget Survey, the poverty line in 2006 amounted to CSD 6,221 monthly per consumer unit.
  • The non-urban population is two and a half times poorer than the population living in urban regions. The poverty index of non-urban population is some 50% higher in relation to the average of entire population and amounts to 13.3%. The depth and severity of poverty of non-urban population was also statistically higher in comparison to urban regions.
  • The poverty gap and severity are not high, which is in line with a relative low inequality in Serbia: the poverty gap amounted to 2.1% in 2006. For example, if the country mobilized resources in the amount of 2.1% of poverty line for each member (whether poor or not) and targeted these resources for the poor, poverty would be eliminated, on condition that the assistance is perfectly targeted for the poor;
  • Inequality between the richest and the poorest population in Serbia is higher than in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia, and is lower than in Macedonia, Bulgaria and Croatia. The Gini values for the group of Eastern European countries range between 26 and 40, and the consumption inequality value in Serbia is 28, which is closer to the lower limit of the range.
  • Another inequality measure used for poverty measurement is the consumption share of 25% of poorest households in the overall consumption of the population. The consumption thereof amounted to 11.1% in Serbia in 2006.
 

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