About 31 per cent of Israelis are "at risk of poverty"
Jerusalem (AsiaNews/Agencies) - A recent report by by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) indicates that 31 per cent of Israelis are at risk of plunging into poverty, compared with an average of 17 per cent in the European Union. Among EU states, Spain and Greece had the highest percentage of citizens at risk of poverty - 20 per cent.
The CBS report, which looked at data from 2011, showed a rise in the number of Israelis and Europeans who are at risk of poverty.
In 2011, 31 per cent of Israelis were at risk of poverty, compared to 26 per cent in 2001.
Apart from Germany and Sweden, Israel had the sharpest rise in the number of citizens at risk of falling into poverty when compared with the EU states.
The data also show that in 2011, the percentage of Israeli children at risk of falling below the poverty line stood at 40 per cent, compared with a 20 per cent average in the EU bloc.
In 2005, the percentage of Israeli children who were at risk of poverty stood at 38.3 per cent.
The sharpest rise in the number of children at risk of poverty in the EU was registered in Sweden (from 10.5 per cent eight years ago to 14.5 per cent in 2011).
According to the CBS data, 44 per cent of single-parent families in Israel were at risk of poverty in 2011, compared with 41 per cent in 2001.
On average, 35 per cent of single-parent families in the EU were at risk of falling below the poverty line in 2011.
By contrast, employment in Israel is doing better than in Europe. The employment proportion of the working age population is slightly higher than in the EU.
In 2012, the unemployment rate among Israelis aged 25-64 stood at 5.9 per cent, compared with a 7 per cent average in states belonging to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
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