Eurostat said Wednesday that
27.3% of the Italian population were was at risk of poverty or
social exclusion in 2018.
The EU's statistics office said this was up from 25.5% in
2008.
Italy was one of seven EU member States where over a quarter
of the population were at risk of poverty or social exclusion.
The others were Bulgaria (32.8%), Romania (32.5%), Greece
(31.8%), Latvia (28.4%), Lithuania (28.3%) and Spain (26.1%).
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