Severe poverty in overseas regions and metropolitan France 2018, by household type

In 2018, nearly one-third of people in single-parent families in French Guiana were in severe poverty. While the level was somewhat lower in the other overseas regions - 24 percent in La Réunion, and 17 percent in Guadeloupe and Martinique - severe poverty was far more prevalent in overseas France than in the metropolitan territory, where only five percent of single parents families were in severe poverty.
Moreover, in the same year, the proportion of people neither in poverty nor in extreme poverty was no more than half of the population in overseas regions, compared to nearly 80 percent in metropolitan France.