it is important to note that multidimensional poverty remained unchanged in the urban amazon between and which ties in with the increasing deprivation levels gaps in all dimensions other than work and social security while relative poverty among afroecuadorians decreased from times the national level in to in the relative level for indigenous people increased from times the national level in to in meaning that despite the absolute reduction in the level of multidimensional poverty the indigenous population was worse off in than in in terms of equity rural areas and especially the rural amazon have the highest levels of poverty but a lower absolute number of poor if the figures are broken down by age group children and adults together accounted for of multidimensional poverty in and respectively both by number of poor people and by poverty level while the elderly are the group with the highest level of multidimensional poverty