Nearly two million people were living below the poverty line in Israel in 2023, including 872,400 children and 158,500 senior citizens, according to an annual report released Wednesday by the National Insurance Institute.
A total of 1.98 million people were living below the line, placing the country second to last in the OECD poverty rating according to disposable income, with Costa Rica worst.
The figures mean that 20.7 percent of people in the country lived in poverty, with 27.9% of children and 12.8% of senior citizens below the line. However, the figure for children showed a slight improvement from 28.1% in 2022. The senior citizens’ rate remained the same.
Children make up 44% of those living in poverty, though they are only 32.5% of the population.
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