Is the Hungarian worker richer than the Austrian?

According to szakszervezetek.hu, although statistics of poverty have received considerable publicity in recent times, based on an international comparison, Hungarian workers are not poorer than, as we say, an Austrian. In fact, he is even in a better situation, according to the OECD graph – mfor.hu said.

The proportion of workers in Hungary, who work for less than the poverty line (50% below the average income) was 7.2% – OECD graph reveals which processed data not older than from 2013. This, if we calculate with the employment number of 3.9 million, can mean nearly 280 thousand people.

However, it is more interesting that we are not in a bad situation, according to OECD data. The Austrians – who usually represent the benchmark for our country – are significantly poorer. In Austria, 7.8% of the workers worked for a lower amount of money than the poverty threshold.  But also surprisingly, the Hungarian indicator is even better than the French, where working poverty is 7.3%. Otherwise, Norway stands before Hungary with a 6.7% rate.

If you narrow the scope to the Visegrad countries (Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Hungary), only the Czech have a better figure, where working poverty is 4.7%, while it is 8% in Slovakia and 9.2% in Poland.