Among Member States for which data are available, the at-risk-of-poverty or social exclusion rate has grown from 2008 in ten Member States, with the highest increases being recorded in Greece (from 28.1 % in 2008 to 35.6% in 2016, or +7.5 percentage points), Cyprus(+4.4 pp), Spain (+4.1 pp) and Sweden (+3.4 pp). In contrast, the largest decrease was observed in Poland (from 30.5% to 21.9%, or-8.6 pp), followed by Latvia (-5.7 pp) and Romania (-5.4 pp). At EU level, the proportion of the total population being at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2016 (23.4%) decreased by 0.3 percentage points from 2008.
Σχετικές Αναρτήσεις
- Darvas, Zsolt, (2017), «Why is it so hard to reach the EU’s ‘poverty’ target?», Bruegel, 19 Ιανουαρίου
- Eurostat/The share of persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion in the EU back to its pre-crisis level/199/2016 – 17 October 2016