Nearly 90% of Venezuelans live in poverty, a rate exacerbated by failed economic policies and a plunge in global oil prices

% of Venezuelan households with income

below national poverty line

90%

80

70

60

50

40

30

20

2000

2005

2010

2015

% of Venezuelan households with income below national poverty line

90%

80

70

60

50

40

30

20

2000

2005

2010

2015