Percentage of people living in poverty in Latin American countries 2022, by ethnicity

Amongst Latin American countries in 2022, Colombia had the highest share of both Afro-descendants and indigenous people living in poverty, with 42.8 percent and 61.6 percent, respectively. Additionally, Colombia had also the highest share of indigenous people living under extreme poverty that year. Ecuador had the second-highest share of indigenous population whose average per capita income was below the poverty line, with 50.4 percent. Uruguay was the only nation where Afro-descendants were the ethnic group with the largest share of poor population, as in the other selected countries such group was indigenous people.