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Poverty Line: South Africa

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The food poverty line shows the cost of feeding a person in South Africa the minimum nutrients for a month. The data only includes food items

Sources

Statistics South Africa

How to cite this data

National Poverty Lines from Statistics South Africa via Outlier Insights

Data notes

Stats SA bases the data on prices it collects to calculate the consumer price index, which includes grocery items such as maize flour, white and brown bread, rice, cake flower, chicken, beef, cabbage, potatoes, onions, tomatoes, milk, eggs, cooking oils, instant coffee, fruit juices and sugar. Stats SA uses it to measure poverty

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