About 35 percent that is 1,829 billion people live below the poverty line, Labor and Social Development Minister Nazgul Tashpaeva informed the meeting of the parliamentary fraction Ak Jol on Wednesday, April1, reported 24.kg.
As to Tashpaeva, 345 thousand of them were considered to be extremely poor. "That is the official data of the Kyrgyz National Statistic Committee," the minister said.
According to the standards, fixed by the Kyrgyz state departments, incomes of 963 soms per month are considered to be the official poverty line. Over 60 percent of Kyrgyz citizens live below the minimum consumer budget (3,571 thousand soms).
