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Overall material deprivation has decreased, but number of low-income families with many children has increased - The Baltic Times
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The Baltic Times
At the same time, the number of large families with incomes below the minimum income level increased by 5.3 percentage points between 2021 and 2023, reaching 13.4 percent in 2023.
By contrast, the lowest share of households with incomes below the minimum income level in 2023 is in families with one or two children.
As a result, some families continue to live at or below the minimum income threshold.
In Riga, it decreased by 0.1 percentage point, in the Pieriga region by 1.3 percentage points and in Vidzeme by 0.3 percentage points, while in Kurzeme it increased by 1.8 percentage points and in Zemgale by 1.5 percentage points.
However, the share of large families with a minimum income increased by 5.3 percentage points and reached 13.4 percent in 2023.
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