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Eurostat: Almost quarter in EU face poverty
09.02.2012 08:02 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
Almost a quarter of the EUs population, primarily in Central Europe, is at risk of poverty or social exclusion, according to statistics released Wednesday.
The figures, provided by Eurostat for 2010, show that 115 million Europeans, or 23.4 percent of the EU population, live in households with less than the poverty-threshold disposable income and in households where there is severe material deprivation.
Bulgaria, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania and Hungary had the highest percentage of population falling into one or more of these categories.
The lowest rates of poverty and social exclusion were recorded in the Czech Republic, Sweden and The Netherlands. Sources: ITAR-TASS, euobserver.com
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