Thursday April 20, 2023 | 6:20 p.m.
The basic food basket jumped 9% in March, while a family needed $191,228 to not be poor, the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec) reported today. In both measurements they were above last month’s inflation, which was 7.7%.
Thus, the total basic basket – which includes the Basic Food Basket (CBA) plus non-food goods and services such as clothing, transportation, education, health, among others – rose 8% in March and stood at $191,228 for a type of family four members (two adults and two minors).
In the case of three members, these values were located at $152,240 and if there were five members, $201,130. These measurements increased 113.2% annually. This index measures the poverty threshold, therefore an adult needed $61,886 in March to not be considered poor.
For its part, the Basic Food Basket (CBA), which determines the threshold of indigence, increased 120.1% per month, above the CBA. An adult needs at least $28,388 in March to not be homeless. In the case of a typical family (four members) the figure was $87,719. In the case of three members ($69,835) and five, $92,261.
It should be noted that inflation in March reached a very high 7.7%, which represents the highest level since April 2002 (when the CPI climbed to 10.4% in April of that year, after the exit from Convertibility). , even exceeding the rise of 7.4% in July 2022.
Food and non-alcoholic beverages increased by 9.4% (slightly less than the 9.8% in February), influenced by the inertia of recent months, but also by the effect of the drought and bird flu. In this sense, meat, which climbed more than 10%.
