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Data Needs

(Riviera Maya), Belize district (San Pedro), and the Bay

Islands (Roatan, Utila) -- display significantly lower

These additional data are needed for a comprehensive

poverty rates than municipalities in other areas of

assessment of MAR coastal poverty:

the countries that have lower tourism levels. Coastal

poverty rates also tend to be slightly below national

· Comprehensive poverty line

data

for

the

averages in most of the coastal municipalities,

municipalities of Quintana Roo,

suggesting that economic advantages accrue from

living in near proximity to the MAR coast as a result of

· Poverty rates based on UBN for Mexico and

the presence of economic alternatives such as tourism,

Belize,

ports, and fishing. In contrast, coastal municipalities

and departments with particularly high poverty rates

· Municipal-level poverty line data for Honduras,

-- such as Felipe Carrillo Puerto in Mexico, Toledo

and

District in Belize, and the Gracias a Dios department

· Marine resource viability and availability and

in Honduras -- tend to be characterized by the

relationship to poverty in coastal communities.

predominance of small-scale agriculture, little to no

tourism or other available economic alternatives, and

relatively large indigenous/ethnic populations.

Honduras12

Mexico9

Coastal Departments

Poverty Rate

Coastal Locales in the MAR

Poverty Rate

in the MAR

(poverty line

(UBN method),

(poverty line method),

method),

% of individuals

Mexico: Country

34.8

Honduras: Country

64.5

56.9

18.0

Benito Juarez

Atlantida

61.5- 73.8

47.7

Cozumel

n/a

Colon

73.8-78.1

62.9

Felipe Carrillo Puerto

43.0

Cortes

58.2 - 61.5

38.0

Isla Mujeres

28.0

Gracias a Dios

73.8 - 78.1

89.4

Othon P. Blanco

30.0

Isla de la Bahia

58.2 - 61.5

36.0

Solidaridad

25.0

Belize10

Ygnacio Rivero

Coastal Districts

Poverty Rate

(poverty line method),

% of individuals

Belize: Country

33.5

Belize

24.8

Corozal

26.1

Stann Creek

34.8

Toledo

Guatemala11

Coastal Department

Poverty Rate

(MAR coast)

(poverty line

(UBN method),

method),

% of individuals

Guatemala: Country

56.0

60.0

Izabal

47.9

62.0

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