Deprivation and multidimensional poverty
Annual 2025 executive profile of income poverty, basic-needs deprivation and multidimensional poverty.
Annual 2025 executive profile
Deprivation & multidimensional poverty
Annual 2025 executive profile of income poverty, basic-needs deprivation and multidimensional poverty.
This profile reads Ecuador’s 2025 annual ENEMDU evidence across monetary poverty, structural basic-needs deprivation, and multidimensional poverty. Monetary poverty, basic-needs deprivation and multidimensional poverty capture different dimensions of welfare, so they should be read together rather than collapsed into one headline.
Scope
- Period
- 2025 annual ENEMDU
- Source
- Public ENEMDU annual 2025 microdata
- Coverage
- National, urban and rural
- Engine
- enemduR
- Output
- Curated aggregate RDS
- Method
- Survey-weighted analytical estimates
Executive signal
Three poverty lenses, one reading problem
The national income-poverty rate is 22.0%, while NBI reaches 30.0% and TPM reaches 37.0%. These are not competing versions of the same statistic. Income poverty identifies insufficient current resources, NBI captures accumulated structural deficits, and TPM captures overlapping weighted deprivations.
The curated output represents about 18,775,415 people nationally for the income-poverty denominator and stores only aggregate fields used by this page.
Household per-capita income below the poverty line.
Benchmark close match
Household per-capita income below the extreme poverty line.
Benchmark close match
People in households with at least one unsatisfied basic need.
Not directly benchmarked
People in households with two or more unsatisfied basic needs.
Not directly benchmarked
People with overlapping weighted deprivations above the TPM threshold.
Benchmark requires review
People with severe overlapping weighted deprivations above the TPEM threshold.
Benchmark requires review
Domain comparison
National, urban and rural profile
| Domain | Income | Extreme income | NBI | Extreme NBI | TPM | TPEM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National | 22.0% | 7.0% | 30.0% | 7.7% | 37.0% | 14.4% |
| Urban | 16.5% | 3.7% | 21.6% | 3.6% | 23.9% | 5.7% |
| Rural | 33.6% | 14.1% | 48.0% | 16.4% | 65.2% | 33.1% |
Values are percentages. Urban and rural estimates are shown only for supported annual domains and are not interpolated.
Insight 1
Rural disadvantage is systematic
Rural areas show the highest burden in 6 of 6 indicators displayed. The largest urban-rural gap appears in Multidimensional poverty / TPM, which indicates that territorial inequality is not confined to monetary poverty.
Insight 2
Monetary and structural poverty diverge
The national NBI rate is 30.0%, above the national income-poverty rate of 22.0%. Reading both together separates insufficient current income from accumulated deficits in housing, services, schooling and household dependency conditions.
Insight 3
TPM captures overlapping deprivation
TPM reaches 37.0% nationally and rural TPM is about 2.7x the urban rate. TPEM reaches 14.4% nationally, showing the severe tail of overlapping deprivations.
Insight 4
Benchmark status matters
Income poverty is benchmarked against public annual tabulations and shows close-match status. NBI is not directly benchmarked against public annual tabulations in this build. TPM/TPEM are calculated with enemduR and their public IPM benchmark comparison is marked Benchmark requires review, so this page treats them as analytical estimates with an explicit reproducibility flag.
Method note
The indicators are based on public ENEMDU annual 2025 microdata and built with enemduR. Estimates are survey-weighted. Benchmark comparison is reported only where a public annual reference is available. The comparison documents analytical reproducibility and does not imply official institutional validation.
Income poverty
Annual monetary poverty and extreme poverty.
NBI
Basic-needs deprivation and extreme NBI.
TPM / TPEM
Multidimensional poverty and severe multidimensional poverty.
Publication layer
Static Quarto page from a curated aggregate RDS.