20% Argentines live on less than $1 a day: survey
Around 8 million Argentines, or some 20 percent of the population, live on less than 2.75 Argentine pesos (89 U.S. cents) a day, or around 82 pesos (26.45 dollars) a month, Argentina's National Statistics and Census Agency (Indec) said on Tuesday.

The data, gathered across the country in a study that ended in the first quarter of the year, presented all new figures as researchers visited poor rural households which were not covered in previous surveys, the Indec said.

The data showed that some 30 percent of the population, or 4 million people, earns less than 400 pesos (129 dollars) a month.

The data showed that some 20 percent of the population spends between zero and 140 pesos (45 dollars) a month, or less than 4.60 pesos (1.48 dollars) a day.

The study defined some 60 percent of the Argentine population as paupers who were unable to afford a month's basic shopping basket of items needed by two adults and two children, which costs 391 pesos (126 dollars) or 98 pesos (32 dollars) a person.

The poorest 10 percent of the population had an average monthly salary of 50 pesos (16.12 dollars) versus 1,823 pesos (588 dollars) for the richest 10 percent, according to the data.