2022 According to data from the Statistical Service of the Republic of Cyprus, 17.3% EE2030 (21.7% EE2020) or 154,000 people lived below the poverty line in 2021, with the unemployment rate at 5.1% in the second quarter of 2022, compared to 6.8% in the corresponding quarter of 2020. This is mainly attributed to the sectors…
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2022 According to the data of the National Bureau of Statistics (Croatian: Državni zavod za statistiku, DZS), the risk of poverty rate in Croatia, after two years of continuous decrease (when the rate was 18.3%), increased in 2021 and amounted to 19.2%, while there are 20.09% of the total population at risk of poverty or…
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2022 208 000 people in Austria (2.4 % of the residential population) are experiencing poverty and social exclusion (as of 2021): they live in ‘severe material deprivation’, and in addition to a low income, they are also facing exclusion in key areas of life (e.g. education or housing). Women are more often affected by poverty than…
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2022 People living in poverty face impossible decisions about money, which bill will be paid and which will remain unpaid, what will and won’t be purchased, the level of debt a household will take on in order to make ends meet. Poverty causes significant harm to the wellbeing, physical and mental health, of families and…
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Poverty and exclusion in Hungary have undergone significant improvement in the past decade, and the same trend is prevalent in the Eastern-Central European region as well. However, redistribution only favoured the wealthy “elite” segment of the population. All this has made Hungary into a country characterized by the most polarized inequalities, as well as the…
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Bulgaria continues to have very high levels of poverty and social exclusion. The country sustainably maintains some of the highest unfavourable levels among EU member-states in all significant and available indicators in this regard. Poverty Watch Main Findings 32.1% of the Bulgarians lived in poverty or social exclusion in 2020 Around one third of the Bulgarian citizens…
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2022 This year’s Poverty Watch Report gives an update on the meaning of poverty in light of Covid-19; on the energy crisis that began in 2021 and was doubly aggravated by the war between Russia and Ukraine which exploded again on February 24, 2022. The Poverty Watch 2022 is the result of a careful analysis…
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2022 Poverty Watch According to the latest measurements of the Czech Statistical Institute (CSI), the Czech Republic has more than 8.1% of people living in income poverty, which represents 901,200 inhabitants (9.5% in 2019, 10% in total). The decline, according to the statisticians, occurred in 2021 due to the fact that household incomes grew, albeit…
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2022 In this Poverty Watch report 2022, there was strong cooperation with Latvian state institutions in reducing poverty, as well as the priority issues related to poverty and social exclusion in Latvia and possible solutions, including in connection with the negative impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the rising cost of energy resources. Read Latvia’s…
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2022 The last few years have been extremely difficult for Lithuania and the world. One crisis after another – the COVID-19 pandemic, the migrant crisis, rising energy prices, and the war in Ukraine. The effects of these crises are still being felt, and the outlook for the future is equally dim. Citizens, businesses, and politicians…
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