A fourth of Serbians at risk of poverty, Statistics Office says
N1 Info 25.12.2018 | Beta
A quarter of the population of Serbia is at risk of becoming poor, the Serbian Republic Statistics Office said on Tuesday.
“The poverty risk rate in Serbia in 2017 stood at 25.7 percent,” a press release said adding that this does not mean that those people are poor but that they face the risk of becoming impoverished. The poverty risk rate in 2014 stood at 25 percent, rising to 26.7 percent in 2015 and dropping to 25.9 percent in 2016, the press release said. According to the results of a poll on income and living conditions in 2017, the at risk of poverty or