The percentage figure, which is for 2023, is lower than in 2022 when it was 21.5%, and is also lower than the 2023 national average of 26.5%. The AROPE indicator doesn't solely measure financial resources. For example, it takes weak labour market attachment into account, meaning people living in jobless households. When considered on their own, financial data gave a poverty rate of 15.3%, an improvement on 16.9% in 2022 and below a national percentage of 20.2%.
In total, there were 185,000 people in the Balearics who were below the poverty line - living in households with incomes below 60% of the average income.
The severe poverty rate refers to households with incomes below 40% of the national average income. Seven per cent of the Balearic population were in this situation - around 85,000 individuals.
As to profile of people at risk of poverty, the EAPN's director in the Balearics, Andreu Grimalt, explained on Friday that it is very difficult to break down by gender, age and island. "Although we have seen an increase in child poverty, there isn't a single profile. We must avoid the stereotype that they are only irregular immigrants. They are obviously more likely to end up at risk of poverty, but no one is vaccinated against poverty."
On child poverty the figures are more concerning - one in three minors were at risk of poverty in 2023. This percentage has increased in recent years. In 2022, it was 27%; in 2021, 22.3%. In 2020, the year of the global pandemic, the rate was 31.2%.
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Stan The ManStan I assume you are being sarcastic. From my first arrival here and from a previous travelling life a phrase has always stuck with me. Two things you will not see, a poor expat chinese and a poor mallorquin. The former run the trade stores wherever they settle and the latter have families and land, always land.
Thank you TD. I was not aware of those people you have listed being in poverty. I thought it was Mallorcaen people who would need help.
Stan, get around Palma like I do. See the areas such as Son Gotleu, you will see that its not Mallorquins who are poor, it's Latin Americans. Algerians and a mix of Eastern Europeans and other immigrants. It's not the locals, its mostly the people who shouldn't be here to begin with.🤷♂️
This is disgraceful. Mallorca is an Island dealing with billions of Euros. In this Article, it is full of facts, figures and percentages. BUT NOTHING ABOUT WHAT IS TO BE DONE ABOUT THE PERCENTAGE IN POVERTY.