A longer term view of poverty levels in Venezuela to give readers more of a historical perspective than the previous graph from 1998 shown earlier. I could not find a table with these numbers earlier than 1998, but there is a graph in the source below. Thus I took a picture of the graph and blew it up to get the points year by year using the data from the UCAB. (The data seemed to be plotted twice a year in the graph). Notice how poverty went down with the oil boom in the mid-seventies, but rose through the Luis Herrera era, despite a windfall in 1980. There is a dip with the second Caldera presidency as 1998 approached. The peak in 1996 was due to the financial crisis in 1994-95.
Source INE and UCAB in Policies for Social Inclusion by Luis Pedro
Espana in “Un Acuerdo para alcanzar el desarrollo” page 81,
Publicaciones UCAB (2006)
Note: I am now storing all these graphs in the Pictures section, so that they will all be in one place. For some reason, only the last ten can be seen there using the calendar on the left, I will try to figure out why and fix it.
The Devil's Excrement 
Leave a comment