Extreme Poverty Grips 38% of Honduran Households

Published on Honduras Daily · Sep 17, 2026 · Originally reported September 17, 2026 by Once Noticias

The National Statistics Institute reports that 38.3% of Honduran households lived in extreme poverty in 2025, down slightly from 40.1% in 2024, though experts say lifting families out of poverty will require job creation, investment, and less crime.

An auto-translated English version isn’t available for Once Noticias, so this opens the original in Spanish. Honduras Daily curates and summarizes; the reporting is theirs.

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