Around 242,430 people they came out of poverty in the Dominican Republic between July and September of this year, compared to the same period in 2024, deducing that each month, on average, just over 20,200 citizens left that socioeconomic condition.
The information is collected by the most recent quarterly newsletter of Monetary Poverty in the Dominican Republic, corresponding to the period July-September 2025, in which it stands out that 413,686 people managed to leave the poverty throughout last year.
However, despite the progress highlighted by the Government in reducing the rate of general monetary poverty18.45% of the population continued to be affected by this condition during the third quarter of 2025.
The report states that the rate of general monetary poverty decreased by 2.38 percentage points between July and September of this year and the same date of 2024, when in this last period it stood at 20.83%.
The general monetary poverty measures the number of households whose income are insufficient to acquire a basic basket of goods and services, according to the definition of the defunct Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development.
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The reduction experienced during the third quarter of 2025 was mainly the product of the increase in the average nominal income of Dominican households, with a contribution of 3.56 percentage points and a distribution improvement that reduced poverty by 0.14 percentage points.
However, this positive effect was partially attenuated by the increase in inflationwhich reduced the purchasing capacity of the most vulnerable households, increasing the poverty by 1.32 percentage points, a figure that when subtracted from the increase in income and the distribution improvement gives a total change of 2.38 percentage points.
rural face
The document, prepared by the Treasury and Economy and published last Tuesday, compares the gap monetary poverty between the urban areas and rural, the latter being the one with the highest level of people in that situation.
While the urban areas showed in the period July-September 2025 a rate of monetary poverty From 17.51%, in rural areas the number rose to 23.69%, for a difference of 6.18 percentage points.
Similarly, urban areas had a greater reduction in the rate of monetary poverty than rural ones, going from 20.12% that they registered in the July-September period of the previous year to 17.51% in 2025, for a drop of 2.61 percentage points.
Meanwhile, the cut of monetary poverty in the rural areas it was only 0.98 percentage points between July and September of this year and the same period of 2024, going from 24.67% to only 23.69%.
These results show that the monetary poverty continues to affect the population unequally, showing systematically higher levels of vulnerability in rural areas than in the urban areasthe report states.
Gender gap
Analyzed from the gender perspectivethe rate of monetary poverty showed reductions for both sexes during the third quarter of 2025.
The men recorded a rate of general monetary poverty of 16.92%, for a reduction of 1.98 percentage points compared to the same period in 2024, while the women showed a greater decrease, with an interannual variation of 2.75 percentage points to stand at 19.90%.
