Extreme poverty is intensifying and hardening in France, according...
Among this public, 30% of people are without resources.
Pierre-Louis Crescitz
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Key facts
Secours Catholique publishes its 2026 report on poverty and finds that precariousness is intensifying and hardening in France. The association…
Among this population, 30% of people have no resources. The median income of people received by Secours Catholique stands at 568 euros per month.
The report notes that in France, 10 million people live below the poverty line, or 15.4% of the population. These figures place the association's…
Secours Catholique publishes its 2026 report on poverty and finds that precariousness is intensifying and hardening in France. The association describes heavier situations and increasingly diverse profiles among the people it supports.
Among this population, 30% of people have no resources. The median income of people received by Secours Catholique stands at 568 euros per month.
The report notes that in France, 10 million people live below the poverty line, or 15.4% of the population. These figures place the association's findings within a phenomenon that extends well beyond its own clientele.
According to the association, rising prices and inflation contribute to a poverty it describes as structural. A lack of resources is no longer enough to describe the situation: everyday expenses weigh persistently on incomes that are too low.
The report thus places at the center of its analysis the growing gap between costs that keep rising and declining purchasing power, including for people who work.
Dig deeper
What is Secours Catholique?
A French Catholic charity, a member of the Caritas network, that welcomes people living in precarious circumstances and publishes each year a report on poverty based on this population.
What is the poverty threshold?
A statistical benchmark, in France generally set at 60% of median living standards, below which a person is considered poor.
What does the median income cited for the people received mean?
It is the level that divides this population into two equal parts: half have less, the other half have more.
In what way is this poverty described as structural?
It no longer stems solely from a lack of resources, but from a lasting gap between rising expenses and incomes that are too low, including among people who work.