In 2024, 16.2% of people in the EU (72.1 million people) were at risk of poverty. This was exactly the same share as in 2023.
At the regional level, 10 regions at level 2 of the nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS 2) in the EU had a share of people at risk of poverty above 30%.
The highest shares were found in the outmost region of France, Guyane, where more than half (53.3%) of the people were at risk of poverty, followed by Ciudad de Melilla (41.4%) in Spain and Calabria (37.2%) in Italy.
By contrast, 28 regions recorded shares below 10%. The Romanian region of Bucureşti-Ilfov had the lowest rates of people at risk of poverty (3.7%), ahead of the Belgian region Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen (5.4%) and the Italian region Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano/Bozen (5.9%).