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Eurostat finds 29% of Lithuanian residents at poverty risk line in 2015
BC, Vilnius, 17.10.2016.
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Print versionSome 29.3% of the Lithuanian population were at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2015, which is the one of the highers numbers in Europe, figures from the EU statistical office Eurostat showed on Monday. The number declined by 1 ppt from 2008, writes LETA/BNS.
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Higher rates were recorded in Bulgaria (41.3%), Romania (37.3%), Greece (35.7%) and Latvia (30.9%).
In Estonia, 24.2% of people were at risk of poverty. The EU average rate was 23.7%. The lowest rates were recorded in the Czech Republic, at 14%, Sweden, at 16%, and the Netherlands and Finland, at 16.8% each.
Persons at risk of poverty are those with income below 60% of the national average.
According to the latest data from Statistics Lithuania, a total of 640,000 people in Lithuania, or 22.2% of the country's population, were below the poverty risk line last year.
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