{"id":428352,"date":"2025-09-16T07:53:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T07:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/428352\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T07:53:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T07:53:15","slug":"greece-has-among-highest-rates-of-economic-deprivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/428352\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece has among highest rates of economic deprivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/intime-supermarket.jpg\" alt=\"Greece has among highest rates of economic deprivation\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/intime-supermarket-960x600.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>[InTime News]<\/p>\n<p>According to Eurostat figures released on Monday, Greece recorded the third highest percentage of population (14%) among the European Union member-states living in a state of severe material and social deprivation last year, with Romania taking first place (17.2%) and Bulgaria following in second place (16.6%).<\/p>\n<p>These are the only three EU countries where the percentage of the population in that situation exceeded 10% in 2024, with the average percentage in the EU reaching 6.4% from 6.8% in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Although that slice of the population decreased significantly in 2024 in Romania and Bulgaria, it increased in Greece, as it had reached 13.5% in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the countries with the lowest percentages of the population in material and social deprivation in 2024 were Slovenia (1.8%), Croatia (2%), Poland (2.3%), Luxembourg (2.3%) and Cyprus (2.5%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[InTime News] According to Eurostat figures released on Monday, Greece recorded the third highest percentage of population (14%)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,1700,18266,20498,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-428352","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-poverty","11":"tag-statistics","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115212898166498304","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}