At the regional level, 10 regions at level 2 of the nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS 2) in the EU had a share of people at risk of poverty above 30%.
Latvia’s figure was 21%. For statistical purposes, Latvia is treated as a single region. In pure numbers, that means 399,000 people in Latvia are at risk of poverty. This represents an improvement on 2023’s equivalent total of 419,000 people and back in 2021 the figure was as a high as 439,000.
In Estonia the rate was slightly lower in 2024 at 20.2%. Lithuania is divided into two regions, with Vilnius and its surrounding area recording a figure of just 13.1%, while in the rest of the country the rate was 25.2%.
The highest shares for risk of poverty were found in the outmost region of France, Guyane, where more than half (53.3%) of the people were at risk of poverty, followed by Ciudad de Melilla (41.4%) in Spain and Calabria (37.2%) in Italy.
By contrast, 28 regions recorded shares below 10%. The Romanian region of Bucureşti-Ilfov had the lowest rates of people at risk of poverty (3.7%), ahead of the Belgian region Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen (5.4%) and the Italian region Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano/Bozen (5.9%).
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