The Ministry of Planning and Development has announced that issuing poverty figures and mapping poverty in the country has been suspended until 2023.
This was revealed by the ministry in a written reply presented in a session of the Senate today (Friday, 12 November).
It was revealed that no poverty index mapping has been conducted in the country after the year 2018-2019, and the ministry confirmed in its written reply that it does not have the latest figures.
It added that Pakistan’s poverty rate in 2018-2019 was 21.9 percent, and 24.3 percent in 2015. It decreased to 2.4 percent in 2017-2018 as compared to 2015-2016.
The survey was conducted in 2018-19, and the plan to conduct poverty mapping and indexing has been postponed to 2023-24, the Minister for Planning, Asad Umar, said in the written reply.
Source: Pro Pakistani