EUROPEAN SEMESTER THEMATIC FACTSHEET - SOCIAL INCLUSION

strategy is to lift at least 20 million people out of the risk of poverty or The EU Statistics on Income and Living social exclusion by 2020, thus Conditions (EU-SILC) survey is the reducing poverty from 116.4 million main source for the compilation of in 20081 to 96.4 million over the statistics on income, poverty, social decade. [...] (See figure 2) In 2015, more the coefficient, the bigger the than a third of the population in four inequality, with a coefficient of 0 Member States was at risk of poverty or indicating perfect equality social exclusion: Bulgaria (41.3%), (everyone has the same income), Romania (37.3%), Greece (35.7%) and while a coefficient of 100 indicates Latvia (30.9%). [...] (See Annex, Table 1) incomes between the 20% of the population with the highest income Poverty dynamics also vary across (the top quintile) and the 20% of age groups and population the population with the lowest background. [...] more, the persistence of weak economic and labour market conditions has caused Children are another group at a and unprecedented increase in the greater risk of poverty or social duration of the unemployment4, with exclusion. [...] taxation, the combination of universal First, there is great diversity in the level and means-tested benefits and the of poverty and inequalities before social "labour market friendliness" of spending transfers, depending on the distribution (i.e.