-Venezuela is now the country in the region with the lowest inequality level (measured by the Gini Coefficient) having reduced inequality by 54%, poverty by 44%.
-Poverty has been reduced from 70.8% (1996) to 21% (2010).
-And extreme poverty reduced from 40% (1996) to a very low level of 7.3% (2010).
-About 20 million people have benefited from anti-poverty programs, called “Misiones” (Up to now, 2.1 million elderly people have received old-age pensions – that is 66% of the population while only 387,000 received pensions before the current government.