{"id":14655,"date":"2026-04-30T16:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T16:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/14655\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T16:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T16:56:12","slug":"spain-records-the-highest-child-poverty-rate-in-the-eu-at-28-4-according-to-eurostat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/14655\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain records the highest child poverty rate in the EU at 28.4%, according to Eurostat"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2025, Spain<\/a> once again recorded the highest child poverty<\/a> rate in the European Union<\/a> at 28.4%, standing 8.8 percentage points above the average, according to Eurostat data published by the European Anti-Poverty Network in Spain (EAPN-ES).<\/p>\n

Furthermore, with a rate of 25.7%, Spain ranks fifth among the countries with the highest rates of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) in the European Union (EU), behind Bulgaria (29%), Greece (27.5%), Romania (27.4%) and Lithuania (26.3%). 25.7% of the Spanish population \u2013 equivalent to almost 12.6 million people \u2013 were in this situation in 2025, compared to the European average of 20.9%. The lowest poverty rates were recorded in the Czech Republic (11.5%), Poland (15%) and Slovenia (15.5%).<\/p>\n

In the case of the European population, a total of 92.7 million people were at risk of poverty or social exclusion, 600,000 fewer than in 2024. Women, particularly younger women or those with dependent children<\/a>, had a higher rate than men (21.9% compared to 19.8%), whilst young people aged 18 to 24 had the highest level of risk (26.3%), followed by those under 18 (24.3%).<\/p>\n

In terms of educational attainment, more than a third of those with the lowest levels of education were at risk (34.2%), compared with just 10.3% of those with higher education. The unemployed constitute the most vulnerable group, with 66.3% at risk of poverty or social exclusion, followed by the economically inactive (44.3%). In contrast, the risk is considerably lower among the employed population (10.9%) and the retired (17.6%).<\/p>\n

The data, compiled by Europa Press, show that in Spain 11.2% of the employed population lives in poverty, which is the second-highest rate in the European Union, behind Bulgaria (11.5%). Furthermore, households with dependent children are more at risk (22.1%) than those consisting of adults only (19.8%). In Spain, almost three in ten people in households with children find themselves in this situation.<\/p>\n

According to EAPN-ES, social transfers in Spain reduce poverty by 23.2%, a figure below the European average of 33.2% in 2025 and that of countries such as Belgium (52.6%), Ireland (51.5%), Poland (38.9%), France (38.5%), Germany (34.0%) or Italy (30.6%).<\/p>\n

With regard to the proportion of the population facing high housing costs (more than 30% of their income), in Spain 7.2% of the population faces high housing costs, slightly less than the EU average of 7.7%. This proportion rises to 28.3% of people living in poverty in Spain and 29.1% in the EU.<\/p>\n

EAPN-ES is calling for the \u201curgent adoption of effective measures to combat structural poverty\u201d, including redistributive fiscal policies and housing solutions. It is also demanding a European Strategy for Combating Poverty that is \u201cambitious, comprehensive and firmly based on a human rights approach\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2025, Spain once again recorded the highest child poverty rate in the European Union at 28.4%, standing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3038,859,333,5219,605,5601,2682,17,7904],"class_list":{"0":"post-14655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-children","9":"tag-education","10":"tag-european-union","11":"tag-housing-crisis","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-poverty","14":"tag-social-housing","15":"tag-spain","16":"tag-unemployment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}