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According to Statistics Estonia, 22.5% of Estonia’s population lived at risk of poverty and 3.5% in absolute poverty in 2022. Compared with 2021, the share of people living at risk of poverty decreased by 0.3 percentage points and the share of people living in absolute poverty increased by 2.1 perce...

Lithuania's poverty statistics for 2019 signal an encouraging trend, but the level of poverty in the country is still very high, President Gitanas Nauseda said.

As the number of people living below the poverty line dropped in Lithuania last year, economist Rimantas Rudzkis says it reflects shrinking social inequality in the country and is a result of the state's social policy.

Lithuania's poverty indicators remain among the highest in the European Union, with one in five people at risk of poverty or social exclusion, according to the EU's statistical office.

Some 28.3 percent of the Lithuanian population were at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2018, one of the highest rates in the EU, the latest figures from the EU statistical office Eurostat showed on Wednesday.

Some 30.1 percent of Lithuania's residents were at the poverty line last year, which is one of the bigger indicators across Europe, shows the latest information from Eurostat. The percentage was up 1.8 percentage points since 2008.

The President and the new government have stressed a number of times that one of the greatest tasks for next year would be to reduce social segregation. The 2017 budget allocates over half a billion euro to social needs. The Prime Minister promises larger pensions, wages are to rise for educators, p...

Some 640,000 of Lithuania's population, or 22.2%, were below the poverty risk line in 2015, up by 3.1 points year-on-year, according to a survey of incomes and living conditions carried out by the country's statistics office. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

While average pay in Lithuania has been growing uninterruptedly for some years now, part of the population still have not felt much improvement in their financial lot.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has contested suggestions that social exclusion in the country is growing.

In 2014, 27.3 percent of Lithuania's population or 800,000 people were at risk of poverty or social exclusion, in comparison with 28.3 percent (910,000) in 2008, Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union (EU), reports.

Some 560,000 people in Lithuania, or 19.1 percent of the country’s population, were below the poverty risk line last year, down by 1.5 percentage points compared with 2013, according to a survey of incomes and living conditions carried out by the country's statistics office.

“I think that poverty is like pornography in one respect. It is pretty hard to define, but when you see it you know it,” says Skirma with a light smile, but a serious expression in her eyes.

Some 30.8 percent of the Lithuanian population were at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2013, figures from the EU statistical office Eurostat shows.

Some 610,000 people in Lithuania, or 20.6 percent of the population, lived below the poverty risk line last year, 2 percentage points more compared with 2012, according to a survey of incomes and living conditions carried out by the country's statistics office.