Close to 119 million europeans were at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2015, the equivalent of 23.7 percent of the population of the European Union.
A report released this Monday here by the office community statistics, Eurostat, revealed that the situation has improved since 2013, after successive rises that rose to 25 percent the proportion of the population at risk in 2009 and 2012, in the height of the financial crisis.
however, the figure has not yet returned to its level pre-crisis, of 23.3 percent.
This situation is characterized by the presence of at least one of the following conditions: live in a household with low work intensity, suffer severe material deprivation or lack of resources to meet the basic needs in spite of social aid.
three countries the risk of poverty or exclusion is more important than in the eu average: Bulgaria (41.3 percent), Romania (37.3 percent) and Greece (35.7 percent).
In contrast, the best situations are observed in the Czech Republic (14 per cent of the population at risk of poverty or exclusion), Sweden (16 per cent), the Netherlands and Finland (16.8 per cent in both), and Denmark and France (17.7 per cent in both).
Compared with 2008, Greece reported the highest rise in the level of the risk of poverty across the European Union (EU), of 7.6 percentage points, followed by Cyprus and Spain, with rises of 5.6 and 4.8 percentage points, respectively.
The risk is also increased in Italy (3.2 percentage points), Luxembourg (3.0 percentage points), and in ten other countries.
The reduction of the population at risk of poverty or social exclusion is one of the main objectives of the European Union by 2020.
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