The basic food basket increased US$32.35 (22.0%) from january to september 2022.
And it increased US$37.84 (26.7%) between december 2020 and september of this year.
Only in this rural sector live most of the poor families in the country, with greater complications to acquire food and have a healthy diet.
In the case of the urban area, the basic food basket increased US$33.52 (16.3%) in the year to september of this year and increased US$40.81 (20.6%) between december 2020 and september 2022.
Likewise, the study details that the increases in the prices of the basic food basket have boosted the growth of poverty and only in 2020 in El Salvador the low income sector increased 26.8% and in Latin America and the Caribbean 26.8%.
Also, the World Bank stated last october that poverty in the salvadoran nation increased by 4.6% percentage points between 2019 and 2020.
However, estimates indicate that poverty would have increased by as much as 7.6% percentage points without the mitigation measures implemented by the Central Government. Inequality is expected to have increased from 0.38% to 0.39%.