paraguay was most successful in reducing poverty by percentage points per year from to between and while indigence also fell at almost the same annual rate over the period from to in el salvador poverty fell by percentage points between and from to and indigence contracted by percentage point from to over the same period poverty in peru decreased by percentage points from to and extreme poverty fell by points to in chile meanwhile poverty decreased by percentage points per year from in to in while extreme poverty fell at an annual rate of percentage points per year from in to in ecuador also saw poverty contract at a rate of percentage points per year between and from in to in while extreme poverty fell by percentage points per year from in to in the remaining countries costa rica and uruguay saw less significant reductions of around percentage points or less in both poverty and indigence see figure i