Child poverty

 

Today is International Day of Children. 3.3% of children under 18 live in extreme poverty and 37.3% – in poverty, while 2.7% and 32.0 % of population of the Republic are respectively considered to be poor and extremely poor. In other words, children are more vulnerable to the risk of poverty than population as a whole. In Armenia the presence of children in a family increases the poverty level.

 

 

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