MEXICO CITY — More than 8.3 million people in Mexico were pulled out of poverty between 2022 and 2024, according to a report released by Mexico's statistics agency on Wednesday.

It marks a nearly 18% drop in people living in poverty in a country that has long struggled with high levels of economic precarity and unemployment. The number of people living in extreme poverty dropped 23% while those in moderate poverty dropped more than 16%, according to the report by Mexico's National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI). Today, one in three Mexicans still live in poverty.

“This is a photograph” of the country, said Claudia Maldonado, a researcher at INEGI.

While INEGI took over research of poverty rates from a previous government entity, official and independent researchers say th

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