Deep poverty in Overseas France by household type

In 2018, nearly one-third of people in single-parent families in French Guiana were in severe poverty. While the level was somewhat lower in the other overseas regions - 24 percent in La Réunion, and 17 percent in Guadeloupe and Martinique - severe poverty was far more prevalent in overseas France than in the metropolitan territory, where only five percent of single parents families were in severe poverty.
Moreover, in the same year, the proportion of people neither in poverty nor in extreme poverty was no more than half of the population in overseas regions, compared to nearly 80 percent in metropolitan France.

Share of people in severe poverty in French overseas regions and metropolitan France in 2018, by household type

Characteristic	Single person	Single parent family	Couple without children	Couple with children	Composite household*	Total
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Release date

July 2022

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Region

France

Survey time period

2018

Age group

16 years and older

Special properties

France excluding Mayotte; people living in ordinary households

Supplementary notes

* According to the INSEE, "In the statistical sense of the term, composite households are defined in comparison to the other types of households. They are the households that are not the ones that include only one person nor the ones that include only one family (a family is composed by a couple, with or without children, and single families).
Composite households include more than one family or several isolated individuals living together, or any other combination of isolated individuals and families.
These households are described as composite ones because the types of relation between the people (couples, parents/children, friends, etc.) are various; they include, among others, households in which several generations hare the same dwelling, as well as roommates. It is thus difficult to establish a standard configuration of these households."

The source adds the following information: "A person is in severe poverty if they are both in severe monetary poverty (standard of living below 50% of the French median standard of living) and material and social deprivation (at least seven out of 13 deprivations). "

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