João Oliveira· The Left

Confirmed

More than 93 million citizens live, in their current situation, pushed into poverty in the European Union

Omissions

• The claim uses the term 'pushed into poverty' while the official Eurostat metric is 'at risk of poverty or social exclusion' (AROPE), which is a broader indicator that includes people at risk of poverty, facing severe material and social deprivation, or living in households with very low work intensity.
• The 93.3 million figure refers to 2024 data, which is the most recent available. The data was published by Eurostat in April 2025, after the reference period but before the speech date of February 2026.

Sources

• PrimaryEurostat - People at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2024In 2024, 93.3 million people in the EU (21.0% of the population) were at risk of poverty or social exclusion
• SecondaryEAPN - Eurostat updated poverty and social exclusion statisticsAccording to the last Eurostat statistics, in 2024, at least 93.3 million people in the EU were living at risk of poverty or social exclusion