Official Gazette: More Than 26 Million Mexicans Live in High Urban Poverty Gustavo Castillo Garcia - La Jornada
go to original January 3, 2014

In Mexico, 26 million 76 thousand people live in situations of high to very high degrees of urban poverty, according to statistics used by the National Public Security System (SESNSP) that were prepared by the National Population Council (CONAPO).

The data - which is used by the security agency as part of its indicators to determine the distribution of resources from the Fund for Public Security - indicate that the states that have the highest number of inhabitants in urban areas living in marginal conditions are the state of Mexico, with, 5,237,000 people; Puebla, with 2,704,000; Veracruz, 2,390,000; Chiapas, 1,634,000, Guerrero, 1,359,000 and Oaxaca, 1,648,000.

The statistics, published yesterday in the government's Official Gazette, say that of a population of 112,336,538 in our country, 26,700,186 people live in "high to very high levles of urban deprivation".

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