This information comes from data published by Eurostat, according to which in 2020, there were 75.3 million people at risk of poverty in the EU.
27.6 million were severely materially and socially deprived and 27.1 million lived in a household with low work intensity.
Greece and Cyprus are among the countries identified with an increasing risk-of-poverty rate of the working age population along with Portugal, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Austria and Sweden according to Eurostat.
In particular, more than a quarter of the population was at risk of poverty or social exclusion in four Member States with available 2020 data: Romania (35.8%), Bulgaria (33.6%), Greece (27.5%) and Spain (27.0%).
Among the 96.5 million inhabitants within the EU that faced the risk of poverty or social exclusion, some 5.9 million (1.3% of the total population) lived in households experiencing simultaneously all three poverty and social exclusion risks (risk of poverty, severely materially and socially deprived and living in a household with very low work).
