Only in Panama did the headcount ratio decline, but the gap diminished by less than the poverty rate and severity was unchanged, suggesting that the households exiting poverty were the ones with the highest incomes among the poor. In Honduras, moreover, the relative situation of the poorest was worse at the end of the period, since the gap as measured by the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) method grew more quickly than the headcount ratio (H). This indicator is used to compare the percentage of poor women aged between 20 and 59 with that of poor men in the same age group.