Let’s start by remembering the definition of the monetary poverty rate in France: 60% of the average standard of living, 1,288 euros per month for a single person, 1,932 euros for a couple and 2,704 for a couple with two children.
In 2023, almost 9.8 million French lived under the poverty line. 650,000 people more than in 2022, despite the fact that social spending in France represents half of our wealth production.
With 15.4% of the population, the poverty rate has reached its highest level since … 1996! That is, since the creation of the index.
In 2023, France has never told so many poor people, while hundreds of billions of euros are injecting our social model.
Record expenditure, registered taxes … and registered poverty! Are we still continuing a lot of time?
Our social model no longer uses us, leads us. It takes us because it is mainly funded by work -based contributions, which is the only lasting lever to get out of poverty. AIDS is just a shock absorber, we see him less and less well.
31.5% of GDP
As a reminder, France is the European country that dedicates the most important part of its GDP to social protection services. In 2023, spending on social protection services in cash or in kind, all risks combined an average of 26.6% of GDP in EU-27 countries. That year, France dedicated 31.5% of its GDP, the greatest participation of GDP in Europe.
Even inequalities also cavan, the Isee tells us. But Atentio, our model remains one of the most redistributive in the world. The differences in the wealth between the richest and 10% more modest are calculated with a factor of 18 before the tax, reduced to only 3.49 after the tax.
In addition, it can have inequalities that are expanding with a global enrichment and, on the contrary, the inequalities that are reduced in collective impoverishment. In addition, the average level of living increases: +0.9 % in constant euros in 2023.
The urgency of single -child
And it increases in particular because the labor income progressed faster than inflation, which was very strong in 2023. And in 2024, he continued.
The average living standard of retirees has also increased faster than that of the entire population.
On the other hand, independent, unemployed and individual families have seen their standard of living fall due to the cessation of certain aid that we can no longer offer with 150 billion euros in deficits, such as return or expensive life bonds (arrested at the end of 2022).
Singlearental families should be the main priority for our social policies. The poverty rate of these families is up and more than one in three family members of a single father today below the poverty line (34.3 %). Result: The poverty rate of children under 18 increased from 1.5 points to 21.9 % in 2023.
Additional proof that this social model is increasingly expensive, but protects less and less.
Source: BFM TV
