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Honduras continues to struggle with inequality and poverty, according to a new report published by the Social Fund of the External Debt and Development of Honduras (FOSDEH).
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The study states that 379,203 Hondurans had been added to the country's 2017 poverty list as of December 23. "At the end of 2017, Honduras continues to sink into inequality and poverty," the report concludes.
In 2016, 65.7 percent of Honduras' population lived in poverty. As the end of 2017 approaches, that figure has increased to 68.8 percent.
The report notes that 6,079,082 people live in poverty. Of these, 3,902,122 (44.2 percent) live in extreme poverty with the other 2,176,960 (24.7 percent) described as living in relative poverty.
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As for the stratification of households, the report says that 64.3 percent live in poverty. Of these, 60.4 percent are in urban areas and 69.3 percent in rural areas.
The data was published by the National Institute of Statistics (INE) after the elections, which were held on November 26.
The polls generated widespread protests and disruptions to social and other services due to allegations of vote tampering following the re-election of incumbent President Juan Orlando Hernández.
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