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France: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.

Country: France Indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion Year: 2025

Country overview

France

Current reading for Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

Latest value

20.80 Percent of people

European ranking

12 / 30

Compared with Europe

+0.8 puntos

France is 0.8 points above the European average.

EU: 20.04

Affected population

≈ 14.33 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

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Latest: 20.80 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 20.40 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Guyane

    +163.50

    54.80

  2. 2

    La Réunion

    +103.40

    42.30

  3. 3

    Guadeloupe

    +84.60

    38.40

  4. 4

    Martinique

    +50.50

    31.30

  5. 5

    Corse

    +37.50

    28.60

  6. 6

    Nord-Pas de Calais

    +29.30

    26.90

  7. 7

    Languedoc-Roussillon

    +21.60

    25.30

  8. 8

    Midi-Pyrénées

    +12.00

    23.30

  9. 9

    Champagne-Ardenne

    +10.10

    22.90

  10. 10

    Auvergne

    +7.70

    22.40

  11. 11

    Limousin

    +5.80

    22.00

  12. 12

    Île de France

    +0.50

    20.90

  13. 13

    Lorraine

    —

    20.80

  14. 14

    Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur

    -0.50

    20.70

  15. 15

    Bourgogne

    -1.90

    20.40

  16. 16

    Aquitaine

    -5.80

    19.60

  17. 17

    Franche-Comté

    -6.70

    19.40

  18. 18

    Picardie

    -8.20

    19.10

  19. 19

    Rhône-Alpes

    -13.50

    18.00

  20. 20

    Haute-Normandie

    -14.90

    17.70

  21. 21

    Poitou-Charentes

    -15.40

    17.60

  22. 22

    Alsace

    -18.30

    17.00

  23. 23

    Basse-Normandie

    -18.80

    16.90

  24. 24

    Pays de la Loire

    -24.50

    15.70

  25. 25

    Centre-Val de Loire

    -27.40

    15.10

More context on this indicator

At a glance

France performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion, although the difference is relatively small. The trend context points to confirmed deterioration. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in France

In France, Poverty or exclusion is close to the European benchmark, although slightly worse: 20.8% versus 20.4% in 2025, a gap of 0.4 percentage points.

Recent trend

In France, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 19.00% in 2020 to 20.80% in 2025. The latest value changes little from 20.50% in 2024, so the previous deterioration continues but with less intensity.

Regional differences in France

In France, regional differences in Poverty or exclusion are pronounced. Across 26 comparable regions, Guyane records the highest value (54.8%) and Bretagne the lowest (14.8%), a gap of 40 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In France, Poverty & Financial Vulnerability shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. Recent changes among related indicators are also mixed, with improvement in some and deterioration in others.