The most serious cases are in single parent familiesthat is, an adult with one or more children, where more than a third (35.1%) of families are at risk.
The risk of poverty has decreased in Portugal, but still affects more than 15% of the population. The elderly contributed to this decrease. The most serious case is in single-parent families, where 35.1% of families are at risk.
It’s a drop of 1.2 percentage points in relation to 2023.
According to INE, in 2024, the risk of poverty rate corresponded to the proportion of inhabitants with net annual income of less than 8679 euros. One million and 660 thousand people are below this thresholditar, 101 thousand less than in 2023.
The most serious cases are in single parent familiesthat is, an adult with one or more children, where more than a third (35.1%) of families are at risk. In 2023, 31% of the Portuguese population was at risk.
Despite the elderly are the most affected (17.8% are poor), they also represent the group in which there is a greater reduction in the risk of poverty (minus 3.3 percentage points), driven by the increase in income from old-age pensions.
Greater Lisbon is the region with the lowest risk of poverty (12.5%). However, the risk is higher than the national average in Alentejo, the Autonomous Region of the Azores, in the West and in the Vale do Tejo region.
In an interview with Carlos Farinha Rodrigues, economist and professor at , considers that the results are “overall very positive”, but states that the increase in difficulties faced by families with children should lead to a reflection on support for children.
