Almost 14% of Slovenians Lived Bellow Poverty Line in 2011

Ljubljana, 17 October - As many as 13.6% or 273,000 people in Slovenia lived bellow the poverty threshold in 2011, while another 113,000 were socially excluded, which together represents 19.3% of the population, the Statistics Office said on Wednesday, International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.