More than 30 percent of the population at risk of poverty live in ten regions of the EU, according to Eurostat data. If French Guiana is excluded as the South American part of France, and thus of the EU, where 53 percent of the population is at risk of poverty, the worst situation in European territory is in the Italian Calabria, where 40.6% of the population is at risk, and 38% in Sicily.
On the opposite side of the scale are the 26 EU regions where the least population at risk of poverty lives, less than ten percent of them. In the Romanian region Bucharest-Ilfov, only 2.1 percent of the inhabitants are at risk of poverty, while in the Italian region Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano/Bozen, 3.1 percent are, and in the Belgian region Prov. East Flanders 5.4 percent.
Our region, Pannonian Croatia, is almost in the penultimate worst category, as 29.4 percent of the population is at risk of poverty. This category includes, for example, the Spanish region of Extremadura, as well as the Italian Sardinia.
Adriatic Croatia has less, 17.5 percent of the population at risk of poverty, according to Eurostat statistics, while the number of such a population in our third region, Northern Croatia, is 17.7 percent.