In 2018, nearly half of unemployed people in French Guiana were in severe poverty. While the level was somewhat lower in the other overseas regions - 27 percent in La Réunion, 26 percent in Guadeloupe, and 22 percent in Martinique - severe poverty was far more prevalent in overseas France than in the metropolitan territory, where less than ten percent of unemployed people 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 activity status
France excluding Mayotte; people living in ordinary households
Supplementary notes
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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Insee. (July 11, 2022). Share of people in severe poverty in French overseas regions and metropolitan France in 2018, by activity status [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 19, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1357103/severe-poverty-overseas-regions-metropolitan-france-activity-status/
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