site.btaPoverty Risk in Bulgaria at 80.2% vs. EU Average of 64% - Eurostat

The share of working-age citizens in the European Union at risk of poverty and living in households with very low economic activity intensity reached 64% in 2020, according to the latest data from the European statistics agency Eurostat, published on its website on Thursday.

The economic activity intensity of a household is calculated as the ratio of the total number of months that working-age household members (aged 16 to 64) worked in the reference year to the total statutory maximum number of months that the same household members could potentially have worked in the same period.

The data also shows that in 2020 in Bulgaria the share of working-age population at risk of poverty living in households with very low work intensity is 80.2%. People living at risk of poverty and part of very low work intensity households are a higher percentage of the population only in Lithuania (85.4%), Romania (84.2%) and Latvia (80.6%).

In general, the higher the intensity of economic activity in a household (the closer people are to full employment of their labour potential), the less likely they are to be at risk of poverty, Eurostat experts explain.