lower-income province [ lower income province ]

income less than the taxable minimum

lower-middle-income country | LMIC

lower-middle income country

lower middle income country

lower middle-income countries | lower middle-income country | LMIC [Abbr.] | LMICs [Abbr.]

provincial average household income index

A new main goal, substantially reducing the number of people at risk of economic vulnerability by 2010, will be achieved by the following key targets broken down by gender and ethnicity where possible: 1) reducing the share of individuals being under 60% of the median income, 2) reducing the share of individuals and of families with children having an income below social assistance norm, 3) decreasing the share of pupils leaving compulsory school with incomplete certificates, 4) increasing the share of individuals that are eligible to tertiary education, 5) decreasing the share of the young experimenting narcotics, alcohol and tobacco, 6 ...[+++]) increasing the treatment of drug addicts (alcohol and narcotics) and 7) decreasing homelessness.

From current Member States only 30 regions will have income below the 75% threshold when compared to the average income for the EU25 (which is 13% lower), accounting for 12% of the current EU15 population (47 million).

Persistent poverty in the EU is slightly more than half the figure for a single year, 9% of the people affected between 1997 and 1999 having an income below 60% of the median in each of these three years, as opposed to 15% in 1999 (Graph 4 Population at risk/persistently at risk of poverty, 1999).

A similar decline can be observed for the poverty rate, defined as the percentage of people with an income of 60% or less of the median income in the country in which they live.