These are the only EU countries where poverty rates have increased

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These are the only EU countries where poverty rates have increased   General poverty levels have been falling across the bloc, but not everywhere.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/12/01/these-are-the-only-eu-countries-where-poverty-rates-have-increased-since-2015  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00How many people live in poverty in the EU?

00:07Nearly 2 in 10 people in the EU are considered poor. In other words, 17.3% of the population

00:16have difficulties or great difficulties to make ends meet. The latest rate reported by Eurostat

00:22represents a slight improvement compared to 2023 when it stood at 19.1% and is almost a 10%

00:32improvement from 2015. But some percentages across the block are still way higher than that.

00:39For example, in Greece it's almost 67%, the highest rate of people in poverty among all EU countries.

00:48Neighboring Bulgaria is next with 37%, followed by Slovakia at almost 29%. Over the past decade,

00:57the rate of people in poverty has risen almost exclusively in Northern Europe, Denmark, Finland,

01:04Sweden and, outside the EU, Norway. It also rose in France, the only such result among the bloc's

01:12four biggest economies. At the same time, many Eastern and Southern European nations have

01:17slashed their poverty rates by dozens of percentage points, with Cyprus leading the way in the EU,

01:25followed by Croatia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania.

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