2021 Poverty Watch – EN – CZ 2020 overview According to research 16% of the people in the Czech Republic suffers financially (i.e. are unemployed, low income, pensioners, single mothers), and another 20% is at risk of poverty. This “permanently at risk” class is specific for the Czech Republic – it is the working…
2021 Along with statistical indicators of poverty, the subjective emotional assessment of poverty by the country’s residents is also important – that is, how the population itself perceives the processes that affect poverty. This assessment makes it possible to better identify priority directions for poverty reduction to help the population. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic,…
2021 According to the Lithuanian Statistics Department, the at risk of poverty risk threshold in 2020 was EUR 430 per month for a single person and EUR 904 for a family of two adults and two children under 14. In 2020, about 585 000 people lived below the poverty threshold. In 2020 the at-risk-of-poverty rate…
2021 Introduction 2020 was a year marked by four key topics. Of course, the entry of the Covid-19 pandemic is the heaviest. A disease that causes us to end up in unprecedented situations, which creates mega new government debts and which brings people in care to the edge of their strength In 2020, a second…
2021 In 2011, as part of the implementation of the EU 2020 Strategy, the Polish Government assumed that by 2020, the number of Poles living in poverty would be 1.5 million fewer. In the EU as a whole, this was to be 20 million fewer people. As EAPN Poland, we have repeatedly pointed out that…
2021 Poverty figures in Portugal indicated a decreasing evolution in the last years, mainly after the last financial crisis. According to the latest data from INE1, the At Risk of Poverty and Social Exclusion Rate (AROPE) was 19.8% in 2020 (it was 21.6% in 2019). Around 2.037 thousand people were at risk of poverty or…
Romania has still both the highest poverty rate and the lowest relative poverty line1 of all EU member states. In 2017 to 2019 23.5% of the total resident population was at risk of poverty; this means that about 4.5 million people are at risk of income poverty. Inequality of opportunities remains one of the main challenges…
2021 Poverty Watch Main Findings Most Affected Groups Roma people Single women with children Children Working poor People with disabilities Main Priorities Improving the digitalisation process in society. Minimum income. Social protection. Fair wages and decent work. Access to essential services. Education Training and lifelong learning. Read the Slovakia Poverty Watch 2020 Almost a million…
Poverty Watch Main Findings Slovenia is one of the seven countries in the European Union where the at-risk-of-poverty rate increased in 2020 compared to 2019. The Covid-19 pandemic deepened the already existing difficult situations of the most vulnerable groups of the population, and above all it showed the already existing systemic shortcomings. The Covid-19 pandemic…
2021 In 2021, a total of 12,495,000 people, which represents 26.4% of the Spanish population, are living at Risk of Poverty and / or Social Exclusion (AROPE). The figure represents an increase of 1.1 percentage point and breaks the downward trend of the previous five years. The Living Conditions Survey for the year 2020, published…
