UN General Assembly
2025

Our progress has been clear. Poverty, which was 73% in 2021, has come down to 63% in 2024, and extreme poverty has been reduced from 54% to 40%. This means that more than a million people in Honduras have been lifted out of poverty in these three years. Poverty has also been reduced by almost six points on the Gini index. This is double what the previous government had achieved. In addition to this, the income of the 20% poorest who had been sacrificed as a result of the looting and the indebtedness that had been carried out by the previous government, in contrast to this, in the administration of the democratic socialism of Jamala Castro that we now have, these people have seen their income increase by 150% and they now have access to health, sports, security, education, roads, agriculture and energy provided free of charge. In terms of security, Honduras ended 2024 with a homicide rate of 26 for each 100,000 inhabitants. This is the lowest rate in 20 years.