site.btaRomania with Highest Rate of Under 18's Affected by Poverty, Social Exclusion in EU in 2021

Romania was the EU Member State with the highest rate of people under 18 affected by poverty and social exclusion in 2021, according to an article published by Digi24 on Thursday. The statistics was provided by Romania's National Institute of Statistics and put up for public debate by the Ministry of Education.

The highest poverty rate was recorded between 2018 and 2021, with three in ten children under 18 being affected. In 2021, 41.5% of Romanians under the age of 17 were at risk of poverty or social exclusion. Spain was second with 33.4%.

In 2021, large households consisting of two adults with three or more dependent children were the most affected by poverty, registering a rate of 56.4%, compared to 53.4% in 2018.

Romania's Education Ministry wrote: "Even if support measures in the field of education are implemented (such as separately allocated places for Roma in high school and university) or literacy programmes of the "Second Chance" type for people over the appropriate age by at least four years, half of the Roma people who have graduated from the eighth grade or later cannot write or struggle a lot with writing."