Baltics have lower child poverty than old-age poverty, indicating a welfare state geared towards families.
Spain and Italy have the opposite, prioritizing old people over families.
Slovakia seems out of place, what’s going on there?
Countries be like: you cannot be at risk of poverty for pensioners if you are never a pensioner :D. By the time millennials and other generations will get to pension, the pension age will be 80.
WTF Switzerland
Oh damn, you guys from other country look like you should rise the retirement age to have biger pensions, it’s way too low. Try 75 maybe ?
Or maybe you should tax the richs, who knows ?
By the time I go on pension, I will move to a cheap cost to live EU country.
Hmm, thought my country would at least a bit higher
Bulgaria isn’t #1 on the list for poverty? This is some kind of miracle
We keep this poverty in old age thing under control here in America by fighting tooth and nail against healthcare.
They’ll add Noway and Switzerland but no UK?
I’d imagine France would be higher.
You know why it’s so high in Latvia? 99% of people don’t live until pensionner age
France be like “We have no risk poverty because the system is so generous it is not at all sustainable and that is how we like it”.
This is by far the worst graph design ever
When I will get pension I am 100% sure I will not be at risk of poverty because the pension will be poverty threshold.
At least I can now pay for current pensioners and make fun of people on reddit who don’t want to push retirement age thinking they will get good pensions if the age will not be moved…
This statistics is totaly wrong. The 95% of the Hungarian pensioners are not “At-risk-of-poverty” but They are In Poverty and a significant part of them in deep poverty.
Germany and Switzerland are easily explained: very few people are very rich, and the vast majority doesn’t have ANY sort of significant wealth; most do not even own a home/house, instead they have been renting all their life. Meaning they have little to no financial assets to pay for anything really, since the rents have climbed continuously (the money coming in is mostly “bound” and there are few ways to gain wealth). Spain e.g. (which is considered not as “rich” as Germany) has many more home owners, meaning those will not get hit as hard by the rising prices, since their home doesn’t cost them a penny, save for taxes ofc.
That’s also why it’s absolute BS and garbage to say that Germany is the “richest” country of Europe – if you consider the personal wealth of every individual, and ignore the super-rich and very wealthy, then Germany is quite a ‘poor’ nation (individual wealth) and is even worse off than some eastern-european ex-soviet countries. There is a lot of money in Germany or Switzerland, yes, but it’s not distributed well. Very few have a lot, and most do not have alot.
This is some funny shit that we are better than Germans here.
We have that stereotype about German pensioners who can basically travel the world, not caring about a thing because they have so high pensions.
For Italians it is not a risk . It happens for sure.
I guess pensioners are not doing good in baltics
Europeans: France sucks. / France right now: “laughs in french”
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Baltics have lower child poverty than old-age poverty, indicating a welfare state geared towards families.
Spain and Italy have the opposite, prioritizing old people over families.
Slovakia seems out of place, what’s going on there?
Countries be like: you cannot be at risk of poverty for pensioners if you are never a pensioner :D. By the time millennials and other generations will get to pension, the pension age will be 80.
WTF Switzerland
Oh damn, you guys from other country look like you should rise the retirement age to have biger pensions, it’s way too low. Try 75 maybe ?
Or maybe you should tax the richs, who knows ?
By the time I go on pension, I will move to a cheap cost to live EU country.
Hmm, thought my country would at least a bit higher
Bulgaria isn’t #1 on the list for poverty? This is some kind of miracle
We keep this poverty in old age thing under control here in America by fighting tooth and nail against healthcare.
They’ll add Noway and Switzerland but no UK?
I’d imagine France would be higher.
You know why it’s so high in Latvia? 99% of people don’t live until pensionner age
France be like “We have no risk poverty because the system is so generous it is not at all sustainable and that is how we like it”.
This is by far the worst graph design ever
When I will get pension I am 100% sure I will not be at risk of poverty because the pension will be poverty threshold.
At least I can now pay for current pensioners and make fun of people on reddit who don’t want to push retirement age thinking they will get good pensions if the age will not be moved…
This statistics is totaly wrong. The 95% of the Hungarian pensioners are not “At-risk-of-poverty” but They are In Poverty and a significant part of them in deep poverty.
Germany and Switzerland are easily explained: very few people are very rich, and the vast majority doesn’t have ANY sort of significant wealth; most do not even own a home/house, instead they have been renting all their life. Meaning they have little to no financial assets to pay for anything really, since the rents have climbed continuously (the money coming in is mostly “bound” and there are few ways to gain wealth). Spain e.g. (which is considered not as “rich” as Germany) has many more home owners, meaning those will not get hit as hard by the rising prices, since their home doesn’t cost them a penny, save for taxes ofc.
That’s also why it’s absolute BS and garbage to say that Germany is the “richest” country of Europe – if you consider the personal wealth of every individual, and ignore the super-rich and very wealthy, then Germany is quite a ‘poor’ nation (individual wealth) and is even worse off than some eastern-european ex-soviet countries. There is a lot of money in Germany or Switzerland, yes, but it’s not distributed well. Very few have a lot, and most do not have alot.
This is some funny shit that we are better than Germans here.
We have that stereotype about German pensioners who can basically travel the world, not caring about a thing because they have so high pensions.
For Italians it is not a risk . It happens for sure.
I guess pensioners are not doing good in baltics
Europeans: France sucks. / France right now: “laughs in french”