Insee Focus · September 2021 · n° 245

One in five persons suffered from income poverty or material and social deprivation

Poverty is a multidimensional concept: a lack of income is only part of the problem, but non-monetary indicators based on living conditions should complete this aspect.
13.1% of the metropolitan France population suffered from material and social deprivation, 21.0% were at risk of income poverty or material and social deprivation and 5.7% combine monetary and social deprivation.
Households with an unemployed reference person and single-parent families are particularly exposed to the risk of poverty: respectively 50.8% and 29.2% were poor in the sense of material and social deprivation; 33.3% and 14.1% combine this deprivation with monetary poverty.