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Poverty in Turkey
Turkey made steady progress in reducing poverty from the early 2000s to the mid-2010s.
The Turkish Statistical Institute publishes rates of poverty at 40%, 50%, 60% and 70% of median equivalised household disposable income. UNICEF used the above 60% figure to estimate that over a third of children were poor on average 2019 to 2021. The World Bank’s poverty line for middle-income countries is $5.50 a day (in 2011 dollars).
The 2023 EU report on the country said "Türkiye still lacks a dedicated poverty reduction strategy. Sustained price increases further posed the risk of poverty for the unemployed and wage labourers in precarious jobs. The poverty rate reached 14.4%, up from 13.8% in 2021. The severe-material-deprivation rate reached 28.4% in 2022 (2021: 27.2%). The child poverty rate for 2022 was particularly high at 41.6%. In 2022, social assistance payments amounted to TRY 151.9 billion, or 1.01% of GDP. Türkiye has fragmented benefits at local and national level, and it still lacks a general minimum income scheme."
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Poverty in Turkey
Turkey made steady progress in reducing poverty from the early 2000s to the mid-2010s.
The Turkish Statistical Institute publishes rates of poverty at 40%, 50%, 60% and 70% of median equivalised household disposable income. UNICEF used the above 60% figure to estimate that over a third of children were poor on average 2019 to 2021. The World Bank’s poverty line for middle-income countries is $5.50 a day (in 2011 dollars).
The 2023 EU report on the country said "Türkiye still lacks a dedicated poverty reduction strategy. Sustained price increases further posed the risk of poverty for the unemployed and wage labourers in precarious jobs. The poverty rate reached 14.4%, up from 13.8% in 2021. The severe-material-deprivation rate reached 28.4% in 2022 (2021: 27.2%). The child poverty rate for 2022 was particularly high at 41.6%. In 2022, social assistance payments amounted to TRY 151.9 billion, or 1.01% of GDP. Türkiye has fragmented benefits at local and national level, and it still lacks a general minimum income scheme."