Updates the finding of Aug 23, 2026
Dominican Republic recorded in 2025 its lowest poverty rate since 2000, reaching 17.3%
Across the 26 years of ECLAC's population series using national figures, no value fell below 17.3%. Compared to 2024 (19%), the rate decreased by 1.7 percentage points.
Current verified finding
Dominican Republic recorded in 2025 its lowest poverty rate since its series began in 2000: 17.3%.
Evidence
Dominican Republic: poverty 2000–2025
The finding preserves the reviewed data even when the source publishes an update.
Snapshot technical details
Query fingerprint: sigev_171c858e7d9fe · The text, result, and records remain fixed to this review.
How we calculated it
We query series poverty_rate_pct of dataset cepal-social-anual (CEPALSTAT) for Dominican Republic from 2000 to 2025 in VerDat's normalised layer and check that no year in the series matches or falls below the 2025 value. We require at least 15 years of series and a gap of at least 10 years. The chart reproduces the query; the values are re-verified automatically every day.
26 rows match the query; 26 results remain in the summary.
What it means and what it does not
The series comes from ECLAC's harmonised basis and not the country's own methodology, so it may differ from the official national figure. This historical low reflects where the country stands relative to its past without explaining underlying causes. Furthermore, future revisions to earlier years could shift the date of the record.
Every indicator is a rate, index or ratio — compare and rank, never sum. Survey years differ by country; missing years are gaps, not zeros.
Verification
Records within the query
Records preserved in the editorial snapshot, using the same filters and partition as the chart.
| Period | Value | Country | Year | Indicator | Indicator group | Month | Frequency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17.3 | dominican_republic | 2025 | Población en situación de pobreza, cifras nacionales | pobreza | Not applicable (annual) | annual |
| 2024 | 19 | dominican_republic | 2024 | Población en situación de pobreza, cifras nacionales | pobreza | Not applicable (annual) | annual |
| 2023 | 23 | dominican_republic | 2023 | Población en situación de pobreza, cifras nacionales | pobreza | Not applicable (annual) | annual |
| 2022 | 27.65 | dominican_republic | 2022 | Población en situación de pobreza, cifras nacionales | pobreza | Not applicable (annual) | annual |
| 2021 | 30.68 | dominican_republic | 2021 | Población en situación de pobreza, cifras nacionales | pobreza | Not applicable (annual) | annual |
| 2020 | 30.42 | dominican_republic | 2020 | Población en situación de pobreza, cifras nacionales | pobreza | Not applicable (annual) | annual |
| 2019 | 25.79 | dominican_republic | 2019 | Población en situación de pobreza, cifras nacionales | pobreza | Not applicable (annual) | annual |
| 2018 | 28.28 | dominican_republic | 2018 | Población en situación de pobreza, cifras nacionales | pobreza | Not applicable (annual) | annual |
| 2017 | 31.22 | dominican_republic | 2017 | Población en situación de pobreza, cifras nacionales | pobreza | Not applicable (annual) | annual |
| 2016 | 34.81 | dominican_republic | 2016 | Población en situación de pobreza, cifras nacionales | pobreza | Not applicable (annual) | annual |
| 2015 | 30.8 | dominican_republic | 2015 | Población en situación de pobreza, cifras nacionales | pobreza | Not applicable (annual) | annual |
| 2014 | 34.8 | dominican_republic | 2014 | Población en situación de pobreza, cifras nacionales | pobreza | Not applicable (annual) | annual |