The Statistics Department said on Friday the number of poor households increased to 639,800 households in 2020 as compared to 405,400 households in 2019. Chief statistician Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Uzir Mahidin“The incidence of hardcore poverty is estimated to increase from 0.4% (2019) to 1% which involved 78,000 households (2019: 27,200 households). The report also provided selected statistics related to income distribution, household structure and incidence of poverty in Malaysia for 2020. Putrajaya registered the lowest reduction in monthly household income and remained to record the highest mean and median of monthly household gross income as compared to other states with RM12,322 and RM9,743 respectively. He said a majority of households experienced a decline in income whereby many households from higher income shifted to lower income group.

Source: The Star August 06, 2021 05:03 UTC