Over a fifth of the EU's population is currently at risk of poverty or social exclusion, says a new damning Eurostat report on living conditions. The document also highlights huge income inequalities in the Baltic states and southern Europe.
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00:00What are Europe's most unequal countries?
00:08Eurostat has just released a comprehensive new report on living conditions.
00:15Bulgaria tops the EU list with the highest income inequality coefficient,
00:22followed by Lithuania, Latvia, Portugal and Malta.
00:27If we also consider countries outside the EU, Turkey has the highest rate.
00:34The document also talks about people at risk of poverty and social exclusion.
00:4194.6 million people in the EU, over 21.4% of its population.
00:51The territory with the biggest share is the French department of Guyana,
00:57followed by the southern Italian region of Calabria,
01:00the southeast of Romania and another Italian region, Campania.
01:06More in general, there are 19 regions across the bloc where the rate passes 35%.
01:16Many of them are in Bulgaria, southwestern Greece, southern Spain,
01:22but they also include Belgium's Brussels region as well as the Swiss canton of Ticino.