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also falling. Moreover, this relative measure says nothing about the relative
or the absolute situation of those below the poverty threshold.
Total population
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Figure 8: At-risk-of-poverty rate in EU Member States (per cent of given population,
based on 60 per cent of median income)
Source of data: Eurostat 2021a
Note: At-risk-of-poverty rate is defined as the share of people living in households
with equalised, after-transfers income lower than 60 per cent of the median income
of the given population.
Examining these Figures in more detail, we once again find several distinct
trajectories in the various countries. In some countries, in the immediate
aftermath of the crisis both the overall and the child poverty rates increased
temporarily, only to then drop again to their original levels, although they
remain slightly elevated in several countries (e.g. Hungary, Spain, Greece,
Romania). Some other countries experienced a constant but moderate
increase in either the poverty rates of both segments, or at the level of the
total population only (e.g. the Netherlands, France, Czechia, Bulgaria, Italy,
Malta). Regarding the total population, Lithuania, Latvia, and the UK, while
regarding children only, the UK alone was where, following a decrease, the
rates increased between 2014 and 2019, too.
Figure 9 presents a significantly different approach. Material deprivation,
which is based on a definitive list of certain attributes, typically goods and