site.btaEurostat: Ability to Make Ends Meet Harder in Q2

In the second quarter of 2022, most people in the EU Member States participating in the quarterly data collection on living conditions reported increasing difficulties in making ends meet, compared with previous quarters, reflecting the increase in prices since the beginning of 2022, Eurostat said on Monday. This information comes from data on the impact of COVID-19 on living conditions in 11 Member States.

The first results of this newly designed data collection with the participation of 11 Member States were released in June.

Between April and June 2022, the share of the population that could make ends meet easily or very easily varied widely, from 3.6% in Bulgaria to 40.5% in Finland. This share decreased in comparison to the previous quarter in all the nine countries for which data are available, except for Italy (+0.3 percentage points).

The share of the population that was able to make ends meet with great difficulty or with difficulty varied between 11.0% in Finland and 39.8% in Bulgaria.

Data show that more than one in five people had great difficulties or difficulties making ends meet in Bulgaria, Slovakia, Italy and France.