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Centro Argentino de Estudios Internacionales / Entelequia. Revista Interdisciplinar
Table 1a: social exclusion in Europe by international comparison – the
raw data
probabi
lity of
survivi
ng to
age 65
female
probabi
lity of
survivi
ng to
age 65
male
relative
poverty
rate
(PPP <
40 %
of
nationa
l
median
)
absolut
e
poverty
rate
(PPP <
40 %
of
United
States
nationa
l
median
)
relative
poverty
rate
(PPP <
60 %
of
nationa
l
median
, mid
1990s)
relative
poverty
rate (PPP <
60 % of
national
median,
mid 2000s,
Eurostat)
% of the
population
aged 24-64
with at least
upper
secondary
education
quintile ratio
Australia 91,5 85,7 6,6 16,4 18,8 62,0 7,0
Austria 91,0 82,4 4,0 6,3 13,7 13,0 79,0 4,7
Belgium 90,4 82,5 3,2 7,2 13,2 15,0 62,0 4,5
Canada 90,7 85,0 6,5 6,5 16,5 84,0 5,8
Czech
Republic
88,2 75,2 8,0 86,0 3,5
Denmark 87,0 81,0 4,9 7,3 12,0 11,0 81,0 4,3
Finland 91,2 80,9 2,1 6,8 10,8 11,0 76,0 3,8
France 91,2 80,9 3,3 10,0 13,5 14,0 65,0 5,6
Germany 90,5 82,3 4,2 7,0 15,7 16,0 83,0 4,3
Greece 91,5 82,0 21,7 20,0 51,0 6,2
Hungary 83,7 64,7 12,0 74,0 3,8
Iceland 91,4 87,4 10,0 59,0
Ireland 89,7 83,1 8,0 15,4 20,7 21,0 62,0 6,1
Italy 92,2 84,6 7,3 18,8 21,9 19,0 44,0 6,5
Japan 93,3 85,7 13,9 84,0 3,4
Luxembourg 89,9 82,6 11,0 59,0
Mexico 84,0 75,2 27,7 21,0 19,3
Netherlands 89,7 83,5 4,5 7,4 13,5 12,0 66,0 5,1
New Zealand 89,1 84,1 78,0 6,8
Norway 90,6 84,7 2,8 2,6 14,6 11,0 87,0 3,9
Poland 87,0 69,7 17,0 48,0 5,5
Portugal 90,2 79,8 21,0 23,0 8,0
Slovak
Republic
86,8 69,3 21,0 87,0 4,0
Spain 92,8 82,1 5,2 20,0 43,0 5,4
Sweden 91,5 86,4 3,6 7,9 10,3 11,0 82,0 4,0
Switzerland 91,9 85,4 4,0 3,5 11,8 70,0 5,8
United
Kingdom
89,4 83,6 5,4 11,8 19,5 18,0 65,0 7,2
United
States
86,7 79,1 10,7 8,7 24,0 88,0 8,4
Source: our own calculations from UNDP HDR 2005; CEPR, Eurostat
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