After knowing the data of the report presented this week in Gran Canaria, we learned that in our CC.AA, the levels of exclusion have increased in the last 5 years. Discover in this article more information about poverty in Canary Islands.
El FOESSA report on “Exclusion and Social Development in Canary Islands” did not yield positive results for our region.
In this VIII Report in Canary Islands, we have known -among other data- that we are the only Spanish Autonomous Community where poverty grows.
Main data on poverty in Canary Islands
We share below with our readers of Sanus by Canary Doctor, The most outstanding data on poverty in Canary Islands:
- Un 29% of the Canarian population (in total 617.000 people) are in a situation of social exclusion
- Our archipelago is the only region in Spain where exclusion levels increased in the last 5 years
- From 2013 to 2018 (period studied in this VIII Report in Canary Islands), the exclusion increased, passing from 28,6 to 29%
- Of that number of excluded, they are especially concerned about 334.000 people in situation of severe social exclusion (raising this figure from 10,7% in 2013 to 15,7% in 2018)
- The FOESSA report explains that "the higher poverty rates in Canary Islands and exclusion, they continue to focus on the collective of unemployed people"; the study data conclude that being unemployed multiplies the risk of going into a situation of severe poverty
- Another important fact revealed by the study is that 4 of each 5 people that support Canarian homes that are in "social exclusion", They are of Spanish nationality.
- Related to the previous point, the Report highlights that the fact of be a foreigner, increases the probability of that person, of entering into risk of social exclusion
Who and how was this report on poverty in Canary Islands made?
Now that we have shared the main data on poverty rates and social exclusion in Canary Islands, we need to explain their origin.
The data presented this 19 of September of 2019 in Gran Canaria, is the product of a solvent study by the FOESSA Foundation (Promotion of Social Studies and Applied Sociology).
This Foundation, created in 1965, It has the support and impulse of Caritas Spain and from 1995, it is dedicated exclusively to the topic discussed today: the development and social exclusion in Spain and its Autonomous Communities.
As they explain on their website, they made this report, through in-depth interviews to representative sample of households and the Canarian population.
Un research team He was in charge of carrying out this analysis, which becomes a useful tool and with great credibility, to know the parameters of exclusion and social development, as well as the poverty rates in Canary Islands.
