More precisely, and according to Unicef, roughly 686,000 children, or 35.4% of all the children in Greece, are at risk of poverty or social exclusion, up from 30.4% in 2013.
The report entitled "The situation of children in Greece, 2014 says that the most vulnerable victims are children from single-parent homes (where 74.7% were deemed at risk) whereas in large families the figure was estimated at 43.7%. A significant number of children in Greece had no access to health care because their parents had lost their state social insurance coverage, it said.
Children living in households with no working adults rose to 292,000, or 13.2% of the total in 2012, up by 204,000 compared with 2008.
The report, conducted in collaboration with the University of Athens, also found a large reduction in numbers of children in Greece since 2001. The underage population shrunk 9% in the decade between 2001 and 2011 census, at a faster rate than the overall population, which fell by 1.1%.
It also found a significant reduction in social expenditure on benefits, with welfare payments decreasing by 4.%9 in 2011 relative to 2009.
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