1.6 million people in Kyrgyzstan live below poverty line

14.06.2021

The cost value of the general poverty line in 2020 amounted to 35,268 som per year per capita, extreme poverty to 19,774 som.

In 2020, 1 million 678 thousand people lived below the poverty line, of which 73.7% were residents of rural settlements.

A decrease in the level of poverty last year...