People at risk of poverty or social exclusion
People who are at risk of poverty, severely materially and socially deprived, or living in a household with very low work intensity. Each person is counted once even if more than one condition applies. This is the EU 2030 target definition.
31 countries have a value for 2025, the latest period in the data.
Trend over time
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% of population. Source: Eurostat. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | European Union | Germany | France | Spain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20.9% | 21.2% | 20.8% | 25.7% |
| 2024 | 21.0% | 21.1% | 20.5% | 25.8% |
| 2023 | 21.3% | 21.3% | 20.4% | 26.5% |
| 2022 | 21.6% | 21.1% | 20.7%b (break in time series) | 26.0% |
| 2021 | 21.7% | 21.0% | 19.0% | 27.8% |
| 2020 | 21.5% | 20.4%b (break in time series) | 19.0%b (break in time series) | 27.0% |
| 2019 | 21.1% | 17.3% | 18.8% | 26.2% |
| 2018 | 21.7% | 18.5% | 17.9% | 27.3% |
| 2017 | 22.4% | 18.8% | 17.8% | 27.5% |
| 2016 | 23.7% | 19.8% | 18.7% | 28.8% |
| 2015 | 24.0% | 20.0% | 18.4% | 28.7% |
Flags: b break in time series . A dash means no value was published.
In short
- Among the 31 countries with a value for 2025, the highest is Albania (39.4%) and the lowest Czechia (11.5%).
- Half of the countries are above 19.4% and half below.
- From 2024 to 2025 the value rose in 14 countries and fell in 16.
- The figure for the European Union was 20.9% in 2025, against 21.5% in 2020 (−0.6 percentage points).
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All countries in 2025 Every value is for 2025, so the countries are compared at the same point in time.
- 1 Albania 39.4%
- 2 Türkiye 29.8%
- 3 Bulgaria 29.0%
- 4 Greece 27.5%
- 5 Romania 27.4%
- 6 Lithuania 26.3%p (provisional)
- 7 Spain 25.7%
- 8 Latvia 24.7%
- 9 Serbia 23.2%
- 10 Italy 22.6%
- 11 Estonia 21.8%
- 12 Germany 21.2%
- 13 France 20.8%
- 14 Croatia 20.7%
- 15 Hungary 19.5%
- 16 Malta 19.4%
- 17 Ireland 18.8%
- 18 Austria 18.6%
- 19 Portugal 18.6%
- 20 Sweden 18.6%
- 21 Luxembourg 18.2%b (break in time series)
- 22 Denmark 17.9%
- 23 Finland 17.2%
- 24 Cyprus 17.1%
- 25 Slovakia 16.7%b (break in time series)
- 26 Belgium 16.5%
- 27 Norway 16.1%
- 28 Netherlands 15.8%
- 29 Slovenia 15.5%
- 30 Poland 15.0%
- 31 Czechia 11.5%
- European Union 20.9%
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Grey: no value for 2025. Colour groups split countries into roughly equal numbers. Boundaries: Natural Earth.