ZAGREB, April 18 (Hina) - Over 320,000 jobless Croatians, over 500,000 retired persons whose monthly pensions are below 1,500 kuna, workers in companies which have not paid them salaries for several months and almost 100,000 employed
persons whose salaries are below the average national monthly wage are exposed to the highest risk of poverty.
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ZAGREB, April 18 (Hina) - Over 320,000 jobless Croatians, over 500,000
retired persons whose monthly pensions are below 1,500 kuna, workers
in companies which have not paid them salaries for several months and
almost 100,000 employed persons whose salaries are below the average
national monthly wage are exposed to the highest risk of poverty.#L#
The poverty risk rate in Croatia was 18.2 percent in 2002, when
773,000 Croatian citizens received the income below the poverty
threshold, the Central Bureau of Statistics has reported.
Statistic experts have concluded that the average one-member household
with the yearly income of 19,253 kuna, namely the monthly income of
1,604 kuna, is at the poverty threshold. The household with two adults
and two children needs at least to earn 40,433 kuna yearly (3,369 kuna
monthly) in order not to be below the threshold of poverty.
(1EUR = 7.5 kuna)
(Hina) ms