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4 results for keyword:social minimum
New method of measuring poverty: 540 thousand people in poverty in 2023
A total of 540 thousand people in the Netherlands were living in poverty in 2023, which was 3.1 percent of the total population
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370 thousand workers living on incomes below the poverty line
Despite having paid jobs, 370 thousand households in the Netherlands were living below the poverty line in 2009.
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One in nine children at risk of growing up in poverty
In 2008, 385 thousand Dutch minors were at risk of growing up in poverty. This means that 11.5 percent of children below 18 years of age grow up in families with incomes that do not exceed 120...
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120 thousand households live on social minimum level for at least four years
In 2007, nearly 120 thousand households (just under 2 percent of the total number of households in the Netherlands) had lived on the minimum social income level for a period of at least four years.
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