The reduction of the number of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion is one of the key targets of the EU's Europe 2020 strategy yet a quarter of the population of the EU, 24.8% or 124.5m people, were at risk of one of three conditions: at risk of poverty; severley materially deprivation; or living in households with very low work intensity.
The figures are from Eurostat and are based on the EU-SILC survey. Each of the three elements contributing to being at risk of poverty or social exclusion can be looked at separately. It can be seen that 17% of the EU28 population's disposable income was below their national poverty threshold levels. In other words they were at risk of poverty after social transfers.
Severe material deprivation was experienced by 10% of the EU which means that their living conditions were severely constrained by a lack of resources. They could not pay their bills, keep the home warm of take a one week holiday away from home.
The third condition, living in households with very low work intensity was reported by 10% of population of the EU28. What it means is that 10% of the people lived in households where the adults worked less than 20% of their work potential during the past year.
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