Madrid/Sevilla, (EFE).- Andalusia is the third autonomous community with the lowest average annual income, with 10,703 euros per person, behind Extremadura, with 10,133 euros, and Murcia, 10,632, according to the Survey of Living Conditions ( ECV) prepared by the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
The highest average annual income was registered in the Basque Country (16,427 euros per person), Navarra (15,970) and Comunidad de Madrid (15,695).
The result of this survey establishes that the population at risk of poverty or social exclusion decreased in 2022 to 26% compared to 27.8% the previous year, a percentage that is set with the AROPE rate, which measures poverty not only with income, but also includes severe material deprivation and low employment intensity.
By communities, the Canary Islands (13.4%), Andalucía (11.7%) and Extremadura (11%) were the communities with the highest percentages of households that made it to the end of the month with “great difficulty” in 2022, compared to La Rioja ( 3.3%), the Basque Country (3.9%) and the Balearic Islands (5.7%).
Population at risk of poverty
57.2% of households in the Canary Islands, 44.7% in Murcia and Andalusia, did not have the capacity to face unforeseen expenses. On the opposite side were the Basque Country (18.7%) and La Rioja (19.6%).
Andalusia (45.2%), Extremadura (42.3%) and Murcia (41.9%) have the highest percentage of households that could not afford to go on vacation for at least one week a year, while the lowest correspond to to La Rioja (18.3%), the Basque Country (18.7%) and Madrid (21.3%).
In the case of households with delays in payments related to the main residence or purchases in installments, the Balearic Islands (20.5%), the Canary Islands (20%) and Andalusia (16.3%) are ahead of Cantabria (5.3%) and the Basque Country (7.2%).
The population at risk of poverty (which measures how many people have low incomes in relation to the population as a whole) decreased from 21.7% to 20.4%, while the percentage of the population in a situation of low employment intensity it went from 11.6% to 8.6%, which are households in which members of working age did less than 20% of their total work potential during that year.
There was also a six-tenth reduction, from 8.3% to 7.7%, the percentage of people in homes with severe material and social deprivation, which is suffered by those who cannot afford to eat meat or fish every two days, heat their homes adequate, face unforeseen expenses, have two pairs of shoes in good condition or have a car.
employment intensity
The survey indicates that in 2022 1.5% of the population were in the three situations, that is, they were simultaneously at risk of poverty, with severe material and social deprivation, and with low employment intensity .
By age group, the AROPE rate (At Risk Of Poverty or social Exclusion) fell one point among those under 16 years of age and stood at 32.2%, and 2.7 points in the age group. 16 to 64 years, with 26%. On the contrary, it rose 0.8 points among those aged 65 and over and reached 21.3%.
The poverty risk threshold for one-person households (calculated with 2021 income data) stood at 10,088 euros, 5.8% more than that estimated in the previous year. In households made up of two adults and two children under 14 years of age, said threshold was 21,185 euros.
Regarding the level of training, 36.1% of the population with an educational level equivalent to primary education or less was at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2022, a rate that drops to 14.1% in people with higher education .
Likewise, 49.2% of people living in households made up of an adult with dependent children were at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2022. The lowest rates occurred in households without dependent children.
get to the end of the month
In relation to activity, 55.7% of the unemployed were at risk of poverty or social exclusion, compared to 16.5% of the employed and 17.4% of the retirees.
By nationality, the percentage of people below the risk of poverty or social exclusion threshold was 21.9% for Spaniards, 39.6% for foreigners from the European Union (EU) and 60.4%. for people whose nationality was not from a non-EU country.
The survey reveals that 8.7% of the population made ends meet with “much difficulty” in 2022, one tenth less than a year earlier.
For their part, 35.5% of households did not have the capacity to face unforeseen expenses (33.4% in 2021) and 33.5% could not afford to go on vacation away from home for at least one week a year ( 0.8 points more than the previous year). EFE