The proportion of young working Hungarians at risk of poverty stood at 6.6% in 2017, well under the rate for the European Union as a whole, the Eurostat data show. The risk rate was 1.5% in the Czech Republic (the best figure in the EU), 11.4% in Poland, and 3.8% in Slovakia. The rate in Hungaryʼs western neighbor Austria was 8.4%.
The highest proportion of working young people between 18-24 at risk of poverty in 2017 was recorded in Romania (28.2%), Luxembourg (20.0%), and Denmark (19.1%). Apart from the aforementioned low rates in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Finland also managed to register an under-5% risk rate, at 4.2%.
Individuals are identified as being at risk of poverty if their disposable income, adjusted for the number of people in their household, is less than 60% of the adjusted national median disposable income after social transfers have been taken into account, Eurostat said.
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