"Figure 4: Persistent poverty rates against overall poverty rates, EU, 2014","" "","" "","" "Notes","1. For Croatia, Denmark, Slovakia and Sweden 2013 poverty rates are used since these are the latest available for persistent poverty in these countries. 2. No persistent poverty estimates are available for Ireland." "Unit","Persistent poverty rate (percentage of total population" "","" "Country","At risk of persistent poverty","At risk of poverty" "European Union (28 countries)","10.4","17.2" "Austria","8.5","14.1" "Belgium","9.5","15.5" "Bulgaria","16.5","21.8" "Croatia","13.2","19.4" "Cyprus","7.3","14.4" "Czech Republic","3.4","9.7" "Denmark","5.1","12.1" "Estonia","11.2","21.8" "Finland","7.0","12.8" "France","7.9","13.3" "Germany","9.5","16.7" "Greece","14.5","22.1" "Hungary","8.6","15.0" "Italy","12.9","19.4" "Latvia","10.8","21.2" "Lithuania","16.0","19.1" "Luxembourg","8.7","16.4" "Malta","10.6","15.9" "Netherlands","7.7","11.6" "Poland","10.7","17.0" "Portugal","12.0","19.5" "Romania","20.2","25.4" "Slovakia","7.1","12.6" "Slovenia","9.5","14.5" "Spain","14.3","22.2" "Sweden","7.6","15.1" "United Kingdom","6.5","16.8"