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Greece
Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population)

National poverty headcount ratio is the percentage of the population living below the national poverty line(s). National estimates are based on population-weighted subgroup estimates from household surveys. For economies for which the data are from EU-SILC, the reported year is the income reference year, which is the year before the survey year.

Global rank#40out of 73 countries
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Historical trend

23.121.820.419.117.7200220122021Greece · 2021: 19Greece

Analytical takeaways

  • Greece records 19 for Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population) in 2021, ranking #40 globally out of 73 countries.
  • Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population) declined from 21 in 2002 to 19 in 2021, a decrease of 2.
  • The country sits in the middle of the global distribution for this metric, making the page a balanced entry point for comparative analysis beyond the extremes.

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