Paraguay

Non-agricultural informal occupation was 60.1% in 2025, about 1.663 million workers. Low headline unemployment therefore coexists with a very large employment-security burden, especially in rural areas and among women.

The 2022 census recorded large gains in household services, but 2025 multidimensional poverty still explicitly includes housing-and-services deprivation and is far higher in rural areas. Built capacity and practical household reach remain uneven.

Paraguay produced an above-average 2025 cereal crop: maize was about 5 million tonnes and paddy about 1.4 million tonnes. That physical abundance coexists with 16.0% monetary poverty and higher rural poverty, so food production is not treated as universal free nourishment.

The 2022 census reported current/piped water in 79.3% of occupied private dwellings and bathrooms with an appropriate sanitary-drain system in 85.7%. Access is substantial but incomplete, with territorial gaps.

Paraguay consumed 29,419 GWh in 2025, supplied overwhelmingly by hydroelectric generation: Itaipú 87.6%, Yacyretá 10.5% and Acaray 1.9%. Physical electricity capacity is extraordinary, while household access and use still remain inside a tariffed grid system.

WHO/PAHO reporting for 2024-2025 documents active primary-care, maternal-health, surveillance and financial-protection work. The system has substantial capability, while territorial equity and financial hardship remain explicit areas of ongoing work.

A Ministry/UNICEF reintegration initiative returned more than 37,000 children to school and delivered targeted literacy and mathematics support, while UNICEF notes that exclusion remains material. The evidence shows real recovery capacity alongside continuing reach gaps.

Current road-connectivity investment targets routes across five departments and about 385,000 residents, explicitly aiming to reduce travel time and cost and improve access to markets, jobs and services. The need for the project itself records existing reachability friction.

Monetary poverty was 16.0% in 2025, rising to 22.1% in rural areas. Multidimensional poverty was 13.5% nationally and 30.3% rurally, directly constraining household and child stability despite growing national productive capacity.

Paraguay has very large agricultural and rural productive capacity, but the live audit did not find a sufficiently current national measure proving broad household access to productive land. Capacity is therefore scored high while reach and gate friction remain conservative.

Paraguay contains extensive river, forest and protected landscapes and maintains a national protected-area system. Public natural wealth is meaningful, but poverty, service gaps and uneven accessibility prevent treating landscape capacity as universal lived delight.

The 2025-2030 SINASIP plan reports 128 protected areas covering about 15% of national territory and identifies management challenges. This is substantial conservation capacity, while biodiversity recovery and ecosystem condition remain incomplete outcomes.

The 2025 World Justice Project index places Paraguay 100th of 143 jurisdictions and records a 1.0% annual decline. This is used as evidence of meaningful institutional friction, not as a judgment about any individual political actor.

Paraguay has a national integrated urban solid-waste management plan and municipal planning guides, but the 2022 census found regular/public-private garbage collection at only 55.2% of occupied private dwellings. Policy capacity therefore remains ahead of universal material-return reach.