Field: Governance and social capital

Subfield: Material well-being

Details:

This indicator shows data on the percentage of persons with an equivalized disposable income below the risk-of-poverty threshold, after social transfers (that include pensions, sickness benefits, unemployment benefits and other forms of social help). The indicator measures low income in comparison to other residents in that country. The people at-risk-of-poverty experience one of the following situations: their income is below 60% of the national median income, after social transfers; are severally materially deprived (for instance, they cannot afford to pay rent or utility bills; cannot keep home adequately warm; eat meat every second day); cannot own a car, a washing machine or a telephone; and, finally, have worked 20% or less of their total work potential during the past year. In 2016, Romania had the highest at-risk-of-poverty rate after social transfers in the European Union (25.3%), 2.6 times higher than the Czech Republic (the lowest rate in the EU, at 9.7%) and approximately 1.5 times higher than the EU average (17.3%).