Poverty in Malta is on the rise and the island is moving away from reaching its targets for the reduction of poverty and social exclusion, according to a new EU report.

Malta is committed to reducing the number of people at risk of poverty to 6,560 by 2020.

But according to the National Statistics Office, “the figure at the time of writing stands at over 63,000, or one in every five individuals,” the report points out.

Recent NSO statistics show that, while in 2008 the number of those considered to be at risk of poverty or social exclusion stood at 19.7 per cent of the population, the figure rose to 23.1 per cent this year.

Read more in Times of Malta.

 

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