“The poverty of the child in Spain is an anxious fact.” With these words alerts the childhood platform, the structure that combines 70 … The main non -governmental organizations working in Spain with minors, around the condition of more than 2.7 million children who live in the risk of obfuscation and social exclusion in our country, is a number that does not stop the increase and is located again near the historical maximum.
More than a third of the Spanish palace, 34.1 %, live daily in need or one step away to cross this line to any unexpected family event. Something is raised by more than 2.3 million children and adolescents in homes with an income of less than 60 % of the average Spanish income, and more than 800,000 is known as what should grow in the midst of deprivation of severe materials (malnutrition, without heating or vacations and hypocrisy) and more than 565,000 have parents or guards who fail at work or 20 % of the annual watches.
But the childhood platform highlights that the most dangerous black scenario, which indicates that children’s poverty is still a structural evil in Spain, is that it increases while the percentage of adults at risk of rushing or social exclusion was in the lowest years, and is at the lowest rate in a contract, at 24.6 %.
In other words, poverty in Spain is preparing for childhood, where the Enquist is. There are 38 % of minors at risk of poverty and social exclusion among other age groups and the gap between Spanish children and poor adults grows every year and is already 9.5 points. The most punitive group is that teenagers are from 13 to 17 years, with a 36 % poverty rate.
More than half of the families with minors, 54 %, are difficult to reach the end of the month. It is the second highest data for the historical series after 2023. This has severe health consequences, including the mentality, in increasing the failure of the school and in the deterioration of the general well of childhood, Ricardo Elf, director of the childhood platform.
With these numbers, the child’s poverty is placed in Spain again at the head of the European Union, bypassing the Roman Varilo, and represents the third worst rate in history. In 2024, only three tenths of 2015 were already placed, at the heart of the great economic and social crisis in this century, and one and a half point from 35.8 % of poor children for the year 2014, the darker data. This indicates that Spain is light years to meet the goal set by the United Nations by 2030, which is to reduce the average 2015 rate by half.
However, in addition, poverty does not affect all children and adolescents equally. The factors that most affect the risk of children’s poverty are the origin of parents (for immigrant children in a double deficiency rate from the rest of their generation) or they are part of one or large family. Baby poverty in one -a 50 % top distinctive and in the numerous ranges between 50 % and 100 %, depending on the number of children.
The place of residence also affects and many. In 2024, Andalusia presented the highest rates of poverty and social exclusion, with 44.4 %, ten points higher than the national average, followed by Murcia (43.9 %) and Canary Islands (38.6 %).
Opening the Family Law
In light of the analysis, NGOs of Childhood require governments and parties that with maximum urgency, he opened the approval of the Family Law, which has been paralyzed in Congress for more than a year, and that at that rule or any other coordination who also comply with the European commitment to pay the eight weeks against the parents who have each father before its session eight years ago. They also ask to create global assistance for parenthood and motherhood; Improving access to the minimum biological income; Increased general spending on scholarships and study aid to 0.44 % of GDP in 2025; Adopting a shocking plan against the separation of schools; Increased measures aimed at ensuring the right of children to decent housing; Ensure that no evacuation of families with minor children; And expand the ban on supplies (electricity, gas) for families with shorter children.
“Spain has a structural problem with the poverty of the child that distinguishes it from the rest of Europe. It is not possible to continue to postpone our childhood obligations to reach the European average in investment. The family law must already be approved and a benefit for global education is approved as the government has committed. “Childhood in our country cannot continue the poverty of children in Europe,” Ebara said.
