the steepest falls occurred in bolivia brazil over three percentage points per year followed by the bolivarian republic of venezuela honduras and paraguay with annual reductions of more than two percentage points these indicators provide a more complete view of poverty conditions by taking account not only of the percentage of people who are poor but also measuring the shortfall between the average income of the poor and the poverty line and how those incomes are distributed among the poor in the case of the second index the years considered in each country coincide with those reported in table in other words in addition to having reduced the proportion of the population with incomes below the poverty line the average income of the poor also increased and the dispersion of their incomes narrowed