That reflects a combination of soaring food prices and the effects of the global crisis, which entailed a contraction in formal employment, a reduction in real income and poor economic growth. Recent figures from CONEVAL show that between 2006 and 2010, the proportion of people in patrimony poverty increased from 42.7% to 51.3% of the total population (equivalent to 57.7 million poor individuals in 2010), reflecting the vulnerability of Mexican households to global economic crisis. Indeed, Mexico is the second most unequal country in the OECD area after Chile. At 8.2% in 2009, Mexico’s public social spending was the lowest in the OECD area, and corresponded to only about one-third of the OECD average (Figure 2.6).