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Almost one in four inhabitants of Serbia is at risk of poverty, according to the latest report by the Republic Office of Statistics entitled Poverty and Social Inequality in 2019, which emphasizes that children and young people, the unemployed and residents are most at risk . rural zones. Experts from our national statistical institution explain that the so-called risk-of-poverty threshold is calculated every year, and this year’s calculation shows that people who live alone and whose monthly income is less than 19,381 dinars are at the highest risk of suffering poverty material.
In the case of the family, the calculation is as follows: households with two adults and a child under 14 years of age, whose monthly income is less than 34,886 dinars, as well as households with four members with two adults and two children under the age of 14. 14 years are at risk of poverty. , who earn less than 40,700 dinars a month. Observed by age, children and young people between 18 and 24 years of age have the highest risk of poverty and people over 65 the lowest.
The analysis by the Office of Statistics of the Republic confirms the social logic: households with three or more children have the highest risk of poverty. In other words, more than half of multi-member families are at risk of material misery. Even single parents with one or more dependent children have a hard time making ends meet: statistics show that 41% of single parents are at risk of poverty. Apart from them, all the rest of the unemployed and almost one fifth of the retirees are in an unenviable situation.
However, what particularly worries experts is the fact that a third of children and one in three young people in our country are at risk of poverty. The Serbian Network of Children’s Organizations recently warned about that, noting that around 400,000 children in Serbia are at risk of poverty. As the representative of this organization, Sasa Stefanovic, points out in a conversation for our newspaper, 96,000 children live in absolute poverty, which represents 7.8 percent of the child population. Translated from the language of statistics, this means, among other things, that a third of parents in Serbia cannot even afford a single book for their child. A study by the Statistical Office of the Republic showed that 40 percent of the population of Serbia cannot pay their monthly obligations, two out of three people in Serbia cannot afford a week of vacation away from home, half cannot cover an unexpected cost of up to 10,000 dinars. it would be paid from the family budget. Furthermore, one in eight inhabitants of Serbia cannot afford adequate apartment heating. Research on subjective feelings of poverty also found that about 60 percent of our fellow citizens live with great or great difficulty. An additional 30 percent say they live with some difficulties. Only four percent of the population stated that it is easy to live in Serbia.
When asked which aspects of life are most threatened by poverty, Center for Democracy psychologist and researcher Sarita Bradash simply answers: everything.
– Due to limited economic possibilities, a person has to reduce their diet and saving on the quality of food very quickly affects their health. This is illustrated by the fact that one in three people in our country cannot afford a meal with meat every other day or its vegetarian equivalent. If you live in material poverty, the big question is whether you can adequately heat the house you live in. Poverty pushes children to the social margins because their parents cannot set aside 1,000 dinars for a new or 600 dinars for a used school textbook, so children are often unable to go to school but are forced to to perform lower paid jobs in the so-called gray economy and continue to turn in a vicious circle of poverty – warns our interlocutor.
The fact that up to 41 percent of single parents are at risk of poverty can be seen in light of the thesis that single parents have no help from either the state or their ex-partner, Sarita Bradas concludes, adding that those who have Children with children are in a particularly unenviable position. disability. That is, these parents generally cannot work because there are no support services for children in the community.
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