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Eurostat: "adequate" meals prohibitive for more and more people in the EU

9.5% of the population cannot afford meat, fish or vegetable equivalents every 2 days

In 2023, 9.5% of the EU population were unable to afford a meal containing meat, fish or a vegetarian equivalent every second day, 1.2 percentage points (pp) higher compared with 2022 (8.3%).Moreover, focusing on people at risk of poverty in 2023 the share at the EU level was 22.3%, indicating a 2.6 pp increase compared with 2022 (19.7%). At the national level, the highest share of people at risk of...

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Luxembourg, 07/12/2024 12:05
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