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In-work poverty in EU member states, 2016. This table shows the percentage of employed persons aged 18 and up. Graphic: Eurostat 

The statistics, from 2016 and published on 16 March 2018, show that the risk of monetary poverty is greater for those on part-time contracts than for full-time contracts at 15.8% and 7.8% respectively.

The risk is even greater for those on temporary contracts, at 16.2%, than those with permanent contracts at 5.8%. Men are also at a slightly greater risk than women, 10% in comparison with 9.1%.

In general, the number of people at risk of poverty has increased over the last few years from 8.3% in 2010 to 9.6% in 2016.

Across member states in 2016, the rate of employed persons at risk of poverty was highest in Romania (18.9%), followed by Greece (14.1%), Spain (13.1%), Luxembourg (12.0%), Italy (11.7%), Bulgaria (11.4%), Portugal (10.9%) and Poland (10.8%).

At the opposite end of the scale, fewer than 5% of unemployed persons were at risk of poverty in Finland (3.1%), the Czech Republic (3.8%), Belgium (4.7%) and Ireland (4.8%).