One in seven South Holland children at risk of poverty – NU.nl

This position Zuid-Holland largely through Rotterdam, where one in four children grow up in families with low incomes, the Central Bureau reports for Statistics (CBS) on Monday.

Utrecht the province with the lowest score. That is slightly less than one in ten children at risk of poverty.

In total, grew in 2014 421.000 minor children in households with a low income.

This is equivalent to 12 per cent. For 131,000 children was true that they already lived four years or more in this situation.

Family situation

With an income below the low-income speak CBS risk of poverty. That limit depends on the family situation. For a couple with two children, for example, the low-income threshold was at 1920 euros per month in 2014.

Children from families with low incomes are less often participate in activities. Then it goes for example to go on a school trip, or practicing a sport or hobby (music lessons).

For more than half of the children in households with a low income is not enough money to regularly buy new clothes or a week to go on holiday once a year.

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The number of children at risk of poverty was in 2014 the same as ten years ago . Between 2005 and 2010 there was a decline. Then rose again.

Of the non-Western minors in the Netherlands grew in 2014, a third in a family with a low income. That is four times higher among indigenous children

By.: ANP