According to the Anti-Poverty Network in Greece’s annual report, 29.5% of the nation’s population, or 3 million 92 thousand and 300 individuals, are at risk of poverty or social exclusion at the same time.
It is noteworthy that the “International Day for the Elimination of Poverty” was observed globally last week.
According to a report from the Greek Anti-Poverty Network, the Greek newspaper “Ekatimirini” reported that 19.
14. 8% of the population is at risk of material deprivation of necessities, whereas 6% of the population is at risk of low income.
At the same time, 13. 6% of the population, between the ages of 18 and 64, lives in low income families, according to the network that uses data for the Greek Statistics Authority and other data that includes its own questionnaires.
The Anti-Poverty Network in Greece also came to the conclusion that one out of every three people is at danger of poverty or social exclusion and that almost one out of every four children live in homes at risk for poverty.
The report pointed out that “these numbers show that poverty among children in Greece is sharp, frequent and worse, and that we are in a much worse mode than average in Europe, where there is one child among every five children, who lives in poor conditions.
After 2010, when the percentage was 27.7%, the relative poverty rate started to climb sharply. It then started to decline in 2015, when the percentage was 35.7%, and it reached 28.9% in 2020.
The report stated that «it is striking that about a third of the total population, under poor circumstances or suffered from exclusion over the past 12 years, according to what was stated in the official data.
This shows that poverty was a persistent issue for a sizable portion of the population, and that it did not begin to decline until the years between 2017 and 2019.
After the Corona outbreak, Greece’s poverty rates are once more high.
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