Topic Highlights:
Poverty and social exclusion in Europe
Inspired by its founding principle of solidarity, the
European Union has joined forces with its Member States to make 2010 the
European Year For Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion.
According to the European Commission definition the at risk of poverty
rate represents the share of persons with an equivalised disposable income below the risk-of-poverty threshold, which is set at 60 % of the national median equivalised disposable income.
Below you will find a range of information and statistics on the situation in each of the EU Member
States:
Eurostat data on at-risk-of-poverty
At-risk-of-poverty rate | 
After social transfers | Before social transfers
| In work
Further data on this topic as well as more statistics on income and living conditions can be found in the Eurostat Online Database.
Further methodological information can be found in the Eurostat publication Income, poverty and social exclusion: 2nd report as well as on RAMON Eurostat's Metadata Server.
Publications
Combating poverty and social exclusion
The social situation in the European Union 2009
17 % of EU citizens were at-risk-of-poverty in 2008
Destatis factsheet on poverty and social exclusion in Europe (available in German only)
Further information on this topic
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European Commission: The GD Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities present 2010 - European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion |
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Germany Federal Statistical Office Germany: The website section "Living conditions, Risk of poverty" offers data on poverty in Germany. In addition the web magazine STATmagazin presents an article on the poverty risk in the German Länder. |
