FACT-CHECK: Spain Is the Fourth Most at Risk of Poverty in the EU, Not the First as Juan Bravo Says

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The poverty risk data in Spain have been a constant in PP speeches in recent months, also in the case of his deputy economic secretary, Juan Bravo. In an interview at Capital Radio he said that Spain had “surpassed Romania” as “the country with the highest number of people in poverty or at severe risk” (minute 06:16). We asked Bravo’s team about the source of this data, but we have not had an answer for now. What he says is misleading. Spain has…

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The poverty rate in Faroe Islands was still 7.6 per cent in 2023. It has been since 2019, when it went from 9.7 per cent down to 7.6 per cent, writes Statistics Iceland. The poverty line tells how many people have an equivalent income of less than 60 percent of the average equivalent income in society.  */     Equivalent income is a converted disposable income of each individual taking into account adults and children in the household.  Everyon…