The number of poor people in Papua increased by 2.22% in 2018.
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The number of impoverished people in Papua in 2018 increased by 2.22 percent compared to the previous year. The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) recorded the number of impoverished people in Papua in 2018 as 917,630, an increase of 19,940 compared to 2017, which reached 897,690.
In 2017, the number of impoverished people decreased by 13,640 from the previous year, which had seen an increase. In 2016, the number of impoverished people was 911,330, while in 2015 it was 859,150.
Over the last ten years, the highest increase in the number of impoverished people in Papua occurred in 2010, rising by 271,800 from 709,400 in 2009 to 981,200 in 2010. Meanwhile, the lowest number of impoverished people in the last ten years occurred in 2008, at only 709,300.
(Read Databoks: The Highest Concentration of Impoverished People is in Maluku and Papua)
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