Nearly 15 per cent of Namibians were poor in 2018

Contributed by NAMPA.

WINDHOEK, 19 SEP (NAMPA) – In 2018, 14,6 per cent of Namibians were poor, a decrease from 22,6 per cent of the population classified as poor in 2009, Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila said on Thursday.
The prime minister said this during the Bank of Namibia’s 20th annual symposium held in Windhoek under the theme ‘Escaping the middle-income trap: A perspective from Namibia’.
The international poverty line is set at US.dollars 1.90 per person, per day.
“However, there is a need to ...