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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 14-07-23
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[01] More than a third of Greeks were living in poverty in 2013
[01] More than a third of Greeks were living in poverty in 2013
ANA-MPA -- Greece ranks fourth among the 28 EU member-states for the
highest percentage of citizens that are living on or below the poverty
line, according to figures released by the independent Greek statistical
authority ELSTAT and published in a report by the Foundation for Economic
and Industrial Research (IOBE) on Wednesday.
Based on the report, just over a third of Greeks were living on less than
60 pct of the national median income in 2013 (34.6 pct), or 3,795,100
individuals. This percentage has risen steadily since 2010 and the start
of the bailout programmes for Greece, increasing from 27.6 pct in 2010
to 27.7 pct in 2011, 31 pct in 2012 and 34.6 pct in 2013.
ELSTAT's figures showed that the risk of poverty has increased
significantly in Greece since 2010 and the percentage of relative poverty
increased by 17.3 pct or 3.4 percentage points. In the same period,
the poverty gap increased by 24.1 pct and the risk of poverty and social
exclusion by seven percentage points or 25.4 pct.
Among EU28 countries, the percentage living in relative poverty was
highest in Bulgaria (49.3 pct), Romania (41.7 pct) and Latvia (36.2 pct).
Greece's poverty rate also outstripped that in other EU countries that
have entered bailout programmes, where the equivalent percentages were
30 pct in Ireland, 28.2 pct in Spain, 27.1 pct in Cyprus and 25.3 pct
in Portugal.
The five EU28 member-states with the lowest rates of poverty were the
Netherlands (15 pct), Czech Republic (15.4 pct), Sweden (15.6 pct),
Finland (17.2 pct) and Luxembourg (18.4 pct). The average poverty rate
in the EU28 countries was 24.8 pct and in the Eurozone countries 23.3 pct.
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