856,000 people face risk of poverty in 2018
Published : 30 Mar 2020, 02:08
About 856,000 people, or 15.8 per cent of the entire household population were at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2018, according to Statistics Finland.
The number of persons at risk fell by around 34,000 persons from the previous year, and the share was on the same level as in 2016.
The number of persons at risk diminished in all dimensions of the indicator, for persons living in a low income household, in a household with low work intensity and those experiencing severe material deprivation.
There were 640,000 persons living in low income households, 370,000 persons with low work intensity and 133,000 living in severe material deprivation in 2018.
A large group of persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion only live in a low income household.
They numbered 406,000 persons or 7.5 per cent of the population and slightly under one-half of all persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion.
The second most common situation was to experience both low income and low work intensity, which affects around 183,000 persons or 3.4 per cent of the population. Mere low work intensity is the third most common, and that applies to approximately 134,000 persons, or 2.5 per cent of the population.
Women were slightly more often than men at risk of poverty or social exclusion. In all, 16.1 per cent of women or 444,000 persons and 15.4 per cent of men or 412,000 were at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2018.