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Greece: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

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

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

Country overview

Greece

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

27.50 Percent of people

European ranking

3 / 30

Compared with Europe

+7.5 puntos

Greece is 7.5 points above the European average.

EU: 20.04

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 27.50 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 20.40 Percent of people

Internal regions

Embedded regional ranking preview with real regional values and shared semantic bars.

Indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Peloponnisos

    +38.50

    38.10

  2. 2

    Ionia Nisia

    +29.80

    35.70

  3. 3

    Kentriki Makedonia

    +20.00

    33.00

  4. 4

    Anatoliki Makedonia, Thraki

    +14.90

    31.60

  5. 5

    Thessalia

    +10.90

    30.50

  6. 6

    Dytiki Makedonia

    +7.30

    29.50

  7. 7

    Dytiki Ellada

    +1.50

    27.90

  8. 8

    Voreio Aigaio

    +1.50

    27.90

  9. 9

    Notio Aigaio

    —

    27.50

  10. 10

    Sterea Ellada

    -0.40

    27.40

  11. 11

    Ipeiros

    -8.00

    25.30

  12. 12

    Attiki

    -14.20

    23.60

  13. 13

    Kriti

    -33.80

    18.20

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Greece performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion, with a large gap. The trend context points to clearer recent change. The wider topic context points to broader pressure. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Greece

In Greece, Poverty or exclusion stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 27.5% versus 20.4% in 2025, a large gap of 7.1 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Greece, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 27.40% in 2020 to 27.50% in 2025. Although the primary period is broadly stable, the latest step, from 26.90% in 2024 to 27.50% in 2025, shows material deterioration and provides a clearer recent signal.

Regional differences in Greece

In Greece, Poverty or exclusion shows noticeable regional variation. Across 13 comparable regions, Peloponnisos records the highest value (38.1%) and Kriti the lowest (18.2%), a gap of 19.9 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Greece, the evidence for Poverty & Financial Vulnerability leans towards pressure compared with Europe; related indicators do not provide a sufficiently strong counter-signal. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards deterioration and warrant monitoring.