New Statistics South Africa reports on poverty

Methodological report on the rebasing of the national poverty lines using the Income & Expenditure Survey 2022/23: Technical Report. "Rebasing the national poverty lines is a critical exercise that ensures benchmarks used to measure poverty accurately reflect current economic and social realities. Over time, changes in the cost of living, inflation, and societal standards can render existing poverty lines outdated."

Poverty Trends in South Africa: An examination of absolute poverty between 2006 and 2023. "This report presents poverty levels and trends based on data collected by Stats SA through the Income & Expenditure Survey (IES) and Living Conditions Survey (LCS) programme. These data sources provide us with comparable data points for 2006, 2009, 2011, 2015 and now 2023, based on the results of the IES 2022/23 which were released earlier this year."