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What percentage of senior citizens are at risk of poverty?

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Values among 41 countries

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Definition:	Senior citizen poverty rate, persons 65 years or older, cut-off point 50 percent of median equivalised disposable income
Year:	2021
Unit:	Percent
Direction:	Low values translate into high scores
Source 1:	Eurostat Online Database
Data for:	AUT, BEL, BGR, HRV, CYP, CZE, DNK, EST, FIN, FRA, DEU, GRC, HUN, ISL, IRL, ITA, LVA, LTU, LUX, MLT, NLD, NOR, POL, PRT, ROU, SVK, SVN, ESP, SWE, CHE, TUR
Exceptions:	HRV (2020), CYP (2020), CZE (2020), FIN (2020), FRA (2020), DEU (2020), GRC (2020), HUN (2020), ISL (2018), IRL (2020), ITA (2020), LTU (2020), LUX (2020), MLT (2020), NLD (2020), NOR (2020), POL (2020), PRT (2020), ROU (2020), SVK (2020), SVN (2020), ESP (2020), CHE (2020), TUR (2020)
Annotation:	Eurostat: Dataset: At-risk-of-poverty rate by poverty threshold, age and sex - EU-SILC and ECHP surveys [ilc_li02] URL: https://ec.europa.eu/eurosta… extracted June 23rd, 2022
Source 2:	OECD Online Database
Data for:	AUS, CAN, CHL, ISR, JPN, KOR, MEX, NZL, GBR, USA
Exceptions:	AUS (2018), CAN (2019), CHL (2017), ISR (2019), JPN (2018), KOR (2020), MEX (2020), NZL (2020), GBR (2019), USA (2019)
Annotation:	OECD: Dataset: Income Distribution Database URL: https://stats.oecd.org/Index… extracted June 29th, 2022

Calculation:	Long-term data series were used to set appropriate minimum and maximum values.
Minimum:	0
Maximum:	28.35
/	Below/Above IQR boundary value. See FAQ for further information.
Distance:	Distance=(value for calculation-minimum)/(maximum-minimum)
Score:	Score=10-relative distance*9

Top group

Score

Senior Citizen Poverty

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Norway

9.5

1.60

Denmark

9.2

2.60

Upper middle group

Iceland

8.9

3.40

Luxembourg

8.8

3.90

Slovakia

8.8

3.90

Ireland

8.5

4.60

Netherlands

8.5

4.60

Czechia

8.5

4.80

Finland

8.5

4.80

Sweden

8.4

4.90

Greece

8.2

5.80

France

8.1

5.90

Hungary

8.0

6.20

Belgium

7.5

8.00

Austria

7.4

8.20

Portugal

7.1

9.00

Cyprus

7.1

9.10

Malta

7.1

9.10

Slovenia

7.1

9.10

Poland

7.0

9.30

Italy

6.8

10.20

Spain

6.6

10.60

Germany

6.3

11.50

Canada

6.1

12.30

Turkey

6.0

12.70

Lower middle group

Romania

5.2

15.00

5.1

15.50

Switzerland

4.9

16.10

Estonia

4.7

16.80

New Zealand

4.7

16.80

Chile

4.4

17.60

Israel

4.0

18.90

Mexico

3.7

19.80

Japan

3.7

20.00

Bulgaria

3.5

20.50

Croatia

3.4

20.80

Lithuania

3.4

20.80

Bottom group

USA

2.7

23.00

Australia

2.5

23.70

Latvia

1.0

31.50

South Korea

1.0

40.40