Overview

• In June a family of two adults and two children in Jujuy needed 1,073,074.86 pesos to stay above the poverty line and 479,350.36 pesos to cover only food needs.
• Jujuy’s basic food basket rose 0.3% month-on-month and 34.8% year-on-year while its total basic basket increased by 1.1% and 40.1% respectively.
• Provincial inflation stood at 0.8% in June, below the national 1.6% and NOA’s 1.2%, with transport & communications and housing driving price gains as food costs held steady.
• An adult equivalent in Jujuy required 155,129.57 pesos for the food basket and 347,273.42 pesos for total needs last month.
• National figures from INDEC show June’s food basket rose 1.1% and total basket 1.6%, pushing the poverty threshold for a typical family to 1,128,398 pesos and the indigence line to 506,008 pesos.