In BCS, 10% of the population lives in poverty

In BCS, 10% of the population lives in poverty

The article reveals a profound territorial inequality in Mexico, where states such as Chiapas suffer from extreme poverty while Baja California Sur exhibits minimal rates. This gap shows that, although relative poverty is decreasing, equity is lacking, leaving vast regions behind and consolidating social lag unevenly across the national territory. Paradoxically, as monetary poverty declines, access to health services and social security drops drastically. Millions of citizens lack basic rights such as access to water, sewage, or electricity, indicating that the reduction in extreme poverty does not necessarily translate into an improved quality of life or universal coverage of essential public goods. This distinction is crucial for open data, as it demonstrates that traditional indicators obscure critical dimensions of well-being. Analyzing multidimensional open data allows for the identification of these structural failures in public services, facilitating the transparency needed to demand policies that guarantee basic rights beyond mere economic metrics, thus promoting evidence-based governance.

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