Xanana Gusmão

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Timor-Leste poverty falls as electricity, water and housing reach more households

Incumbent prime minister

Timor-Leste's national poverty rate fell from 48.4% in 2014 to 37% in 2024, according to a living-conditions report presented October 20 by the Ministry of Finance and the National Statistics Institute (INETL). Grid electricity reached 93.6% of households, up from 67.2%, and the share of people without electricity fell to 1.7%. Safe drinking water gaps shrank from 25.4% to 9.1%.

Updated Oct 27