Poverty Watch Austria | Poverty Watch 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 men. One in four people experiencing poverty are children. Their parents are immigrants, out of work, single parents, or have jobs in which they do not earn enough to make ends meet. One in three poor people are unable to escape the cycle of poverty and social exclusion. Half of all people living in manifest poverty have been in this situation for more than a year.