Poverty & Inequality in Greece

160 indicators covering poverty & inequality for Greece.

IndicatorLatest Year10-yr change Rank
Subjective poverty by tenure status 67.2% 2025 down 13.5% 1st
Share of gross national income donated toward poverty reduction 0.0% 2022 16th
Proportion of population living in multidimensional poverty 27.5% 2025 down 23.0% 12th
Material and social deprivation rate by age and sex 30.1% 2025 down 20.8% 2nd
Material and social deprivation rate by tenure status 30.1% 2025 down 20.8% 2nd
Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion by level of disability 32.9% 2025 down 23.8% 4th
Severe material and social deprivation rate by level of disability 16.3% 2025 down 15.1% 2nd
Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion by age and sex 2,797 Thousand persons 2025 down 19.4% 13th
Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax 0.3196 2023 down 6.5% 16th
Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax among working age population 0.3299 2023 down 6.1% 12th
Material and social deprivation rate by number of items of deprivation 10,158 Thousand persons 2025 down 5.3% 15th
Mean number of deprivation items among the deprived 8.3 Average 2025 up 3.8% 17th
Persons who cannot afford a computer by sex, age and a risk of 2.3% 2025 down 72.6% 27th
Persons not having a computer for other reasons than affordability by 11.4% 2025 down 43.6% 18th
Persons not having a computer for other reasons than affordability by 11.4% 2025 down 43.6% 18th
Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion by tenure status 2,797 Thousand persons 2025 down 19.4% 11th
Persons who cannot afford a computer by sex, age, and risk of poverty 2.3% 2025 down 72.6% 27th
Persons who cannot afford a personal car by sex, age and risk of 7.3% 2025 down 29.1% 15th
Persons who cannot afford two pairs of properly fitting shoes by age 2.5% 2025 up 92.3% 17th
Severe material and social deprivation by tenure status 14.9% 2025 down 15.3% 4th
Severe material and social deprivation rate by age and sex 1,510 Thousand persons 2025 down 19.2% 7th
Share in multidimensional poverty according to national definitions 26.1% 2023 down 26.9% 13th
Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion - EU2030 target 2,797 Thousand persons 2025 down 19.4% 11th
Material deprivation for the 'Durables' dimension, by number of item 89.0% 2020 up 5.3% 37th
Material and social deprivation rate by age, sex and most frequent 36.8% 2025 down 13.2% 4th
Severe material deprivation rate by age and sex 1,745 Thousand persons 2020 up 37.5% 11th
Proportion of population below the international poverty line of 1.5% 2015 up 650.0% 25th
Income inequality: Gini coefficient before and after tax 0.3% 2024 down 5.7% 8th
Severe material deprivation rate by tenure status 16.6% 2020 up 43.1% 4th
Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion by tenure status - EU 28.8% 2020 up 4.0% 7th
At-risk-of-poverty rate anchored at a fixed moment in time (2019) by 11.3% 2025 down 36.9% 19th
Severe material and social deprivation by age, sex and most frequent 2 Thousand persons 2025 up 100.0% 5th
Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion by age and sex - EU -13 Cumulative difference from 2008, in thousands 2020 up 13.3% 19th
Multidimensional poverty headcount ratio 28.9% 2020 up 4.3% 10th
Multidimensional poverty headcount ratio, female 29.9% 2020 up 2.0% 9th
Multidimensional poverty headcount ratio, male 28.0% 2020 up 7.7% 9th
Multidimensional poverty headcount ratio, children 30.5% 2020 up 6.3% 9th
Households impoverished by out-of-pocket payments (relative poverty) 1.7% 2020 up 60.9% 18th
Households further impoverished by out-of-pocket payments (relative) 1.5% 2020 up 57.9% 9th
Households pushed below or further below a relative poverty line 3.3% 2020 up 59.5% 15th