Furthermore, 24.2% of households in the Basque Autonomous Community may face unforeseen expenses and 12.9% cannot afford to keep their home at an adequate temperature.
He 18.8% of children and adolescents in the Basque Autonomous Community (CAV), which means almost 65,700 peopleis at risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE rate). In the BAC, this rate is 15.7 percentage points below that of those under 18 in the Spanish state as a whole (34.5%), according to data collected in the 2023 UNICEF Living Conditions Survey.
Furthermore, the 13.7% of people under the age of 18 (approximately 48,200 people) are at risk of poverty in the Basque Country, meaning that they live in households with an equivalent income below 60% of the median equivalent income resulting for Spain as a whole (state threshold).
If instead of the state threshold the regional threshold is taken as a reference, the risk of poverty among children and adolescents in the BAC would be equal to a 20.1that influence these situations approximately 70,300 people.
On the other hand, 7.2% of minors in Euskadi (approximately 25,100 people) lives in houses in situations of material and social shortage strict. From a comparative perspective, this percentage is lower than that in the Spanish state as a whole (12.3%).
Situations of lack or deprivation vary in scope among households with a minor. In the BAC, almost a quarter of these households (24.2%) do not have the means to pay unforeseen expenses21.1% cannot afford it go on holiday at least one week per year and 14.1% have had this delays in the payment of costs related to the main home or the installment purchase.
Likewise, 12.9% cannot afford to have the housing with sufficient temperature and 3.8% cannot afford it a meal with meat, chicken or fish (or the equivalent for vegetarians) at least every other day.
About twenty activists from the Zero Poverty platform appeared before the media today at the San Sebastian Boulevard kiosk, on the occasion of the International Day against Poverty and Exclusion on October 17. The platform, consisting of fourteen NGOs and social groups, has denounced this “the rise of the extreme right” in Europe and other parts of the world ‘threatens’ the human rights of all people and ‘fosters intolerance’.
Source: EITB
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