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…
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As a result of the corona crisis, the economy is about to fall into recession, unemployment is rising and social security is being invoked more. Furthermore, it can be expected that part of the working population has (temporary) less income. However, Netherlands is doing some good efforts to reduce poverty rates, as the minimum wage…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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In 2018 as many as 243.000 persons lived below the at-risk-of-poverty threshold with this threshold being 12%. The at-risk-of-poverty threshold totalled EUR 703.00 per month for single-person households, EUR 1477 per month for four-member household (two adults and two children under the age of 14), and EUR 1055 per month for two-member household without children.…
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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…
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UK income and wealth inequality are high and wealth inequality is rising. London is the richest city in the UK, but has the highest concentrations of people in poverty, and of children needing free school meals, crowded into poor boroughs. Edinburgh is the richest city in Scotland, but 80,000 people live in poverty, including 1…
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The Icelandic system of social benefits is a myriad of different systems that don’t always work together, but when they do, it seems to rather work to benefit the system itself, but not the claimant. This results in groups of people falling through gaps in the system (those who fall short of qualifying in all…
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