Abstract:

Based on data from 23 countries, covering 83 per cent of global indigenous peoples populations, they constitute almost 19 per cent of the extreme poor. Indigenous peoples are nearly three times more likely to be in extreme poverty than their non-indigenous counterparts. Poverty has a gender and indigenous dimension – over 18 per cent of indigenous women live below US$1.90 a day. Indigenous peoples’ opportunities to access good quality employment are scarce – they are 20 percentage points more likely to work in the informal economy than non-indigenous workers. Indigenous women and men in wage employment earn 19 per cent less than non-indigenous workers.