Eurostat reports on Greeks living in poverty

In Greece, the percentage of those at risk of poverty or social exclusion had risen from 29.1% in 2008 to 35.7% in 2015, or 3.8 million people. This percentage includes those living below the national poverty line (income less than 60% of the national average), those that are severely materially deprived and cannot afford essentials and those living in households with very low work intensity, where no one has a steady job: 21.4% are living below the poverty line, 22.2 %  are severely materially deprived, and 16.8 %live in households of low work intensity. The same percentages in the EU on average are 17.3%, 8.1 %, and 10.5% respectively. Overall in the EU, those at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2015 returned to the same levels as in 2008, or 23.7% (118.8 million people).