{"id":243778,"date":"2025-11-04T18:27:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/243778\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T18:27:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:27:14","slug":"greece-ranks-among-eus-poorest-one-in-ten-workers-faces-poverty-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/243778\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece Ranks Among EU\u2019s Poorest: One in Ten Workers Faces Poverty Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One in ten workers in Greece<\/a> faces poverty, Eurostat Finds Credit: Greek Reporter<\/p>\n

A recent Eurostat report places Greece among the five lowest-ranking economies in the European Union, showing that one in ten employed citizens is at risk of poverty. Data indicates that 10.7% of Greek workers are classified as \u201cworking poor,\u201d ranking Greece fifth in the EU, behind Luxembourg (13.4%), Bulgaria (11.8%), Spain (11.2%), and Romania (10.9%).<\/p>\n

The findings underscore how a decade of financial strain and low wage growth continues to affect Greek households despite broader signs of economic stabilization across the bloc.<\/p>\n

Poverty rates higher among men<\/p>\n

Among male workers in Greece<\/a>, 13% live at risk of poverty<\/a>, making the country the second worst performer in the EU, tied with Bulgaria and just behind Romania (14.4%). Female workers<\/a> fare somewhat better, with 7.6% considered at risk, placing Greece 14th among EU members, ahead of countries such as Italy, Switzerland, and France.<\/p>\n

Across the EU, men are generally more likely than women to experience in-work poverty, particularly in Southern and Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n

Income drop for workers across Greece<\/p>\n

Eurostat\u2019s publication \u201cKey Figures on Living Conditions in Europe 2025\u201d<\/a> shows that while the EU\u2019s average disposable income rose by 20.4% from 2010 to 2024, Greece experienced a 25.8% decline, the largest drop in the Union.<\/p>\n

Only Italy (-2.8%) and France (-1.7%) also saw decreases, while Romania (+162%), Bulgaria, Poland, Croatia, Hungary, and the Baltic states recorded major growth. The data shows that Greece continues to lag behind much of Europe in income recovery and living standards.<\/p>\n

Poverty risk for Europe\u2019s workers<\/p>\n

Poverty risk is not limited to the unemployed. In 2024, 8.2% of employed Europeans, including the self-employed, lived below the poverty line. Men faced a higher rate (9%) of poverty risk than women (7.3%).<\/p>\n

The highest rate among workers was in Luxembourg (13.4%), while Finland recorded the lowest (2.8%). The largest gender gap appeared in Romania, where men were more than eight percentage points more likely than women to experience poverty.<\/p>\n

For Greece, the challenge remains in creating jobs that provide secure and sustainable incomes, reducing the number of workers trapped in poverty despite being employed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One in ten workers in Greece faces poverty, Eurostat Finds Credit: Greek Reporter A recent Eurostat report places…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-243778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}