Romania tops EU chart on poverty and social exclusion risks

Romania has one of the highest risks of population poverty and social exclusion in the EU, based on data recently released by Eurostat. Over 42 percent of the country's women and almost 41 percent of its men are at risk of poverty and social exclusion, according to statistics. For women, this is the second highest figure, after Bulgaria, with 43.3 percent of its women at risk of poverty. On the men segment, Romania tops the European chart.

People in Iceland face the lowest risk of poverty and social exclusion, with just 14 and 13.5 percent for women and men respectively, followed by Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Denmark, with around 16 percent. In 2010, there were 62 million women- a quarter of all women and 54 million men -22 percent of all men-in the EU27 who were at risk of poverty or social exclusion. This means that they were at least in one of the following three conditions: at-risk-of-poverty, severely materially deprived, or living in households with very low work intensity. The full Eurostat report here. editor@romania-insider.com (photo source: Sxc.hu)