Eurostat data: Almost a quarter of people in the EU feel poor

(Patria) - Almost a quarter of the population in the European Union (24.1 percent) subjectively felt poor, according to the results of last year's survey published yesterday by Eurostat.

The highest number of those who subjectively feel poor are among citizens with lower education (28.9 percent), followed by those with secondary education (18.5 percent), while among the highly educated, there are 9.2 percent.

In Croatia, 22 percent of people with secondary education stated that they feel poor, around 45 percent of those with lower education, and 10 percent among the highly educated.

A higher percentage of those who feel poorer than in Croatia was recorded in France (22.2 percent), Spain (22.5 percent), and Portugal (23.6 percent), Hina reports.

The highest number of citizens with a subjective feeling of poverty was in Greece (67 percent) and Bulgaria (33 percent), and the lowest in the Netherlands (7.3 percent) and Finland (7.5 percent).

The subjective feeling of poverty is slightly higher among women (24.7 percent) than men (23.5 percent).

In most EU countries, the number of those who subjectively feel poor is higher than the number of those at risk of poverty, according to Eurostat's classification.

In Croatia, 19.3 percent of the population is at risk of poverty, and at the EU level, it is 16.2 percent.

Higher percentages of people who consider themselves subjectively poor were observed in Eastern and Southern Europe, with significant differences between subjective poverty and poverty risk rates.

A total of 17 EU countries recorded more people who consider themselves subjectively poor compared to poverty risk rates.

Greece recorded the largest gap, with 67 percent of people considering themselves subjectively poor compared to 18.9 percent at risk of poverty, a difference of 48.1 percentage points.

Other countries with a noticeable gap include Slovakia (16.0 percentage points), Bulgaria (12.6), Cyprus (10.4), and Hungary (9.6).