“The poverty rate in Buenos Aires City in of the third quarter of last year fell to 17.3 percent, affecting some 534,000 individuals – a drop by 10.8 percentage points from the same period of 2024.

Data released by the City government this week also showed that extreme poverty fell to 5.3 percent of residents in the capital, or some 164,000 people, as against the 11 percent observed a year ago.

Measured by households, 13.7 percent were considered poor in the third quarter of 2025, with four percent classified as in extreme poverty.”

From Buenos Aires Times.