30% French people suffer from poverty: study

More that 30 percent of France's 67 million population lives in poverty and 20 percent risks living below the poverty line, the annual study released by Ipsos-Secours populaires revealed on Thursday.

This year's study showed that 57 percent of respondents said they felt threatened by poverty compared to 55 percent in 2016, and 52 percent a year earlier.

In addition, one out of five French people said they were being "overdrawn" with respect to their monthly budgets, according to the study.

More than 8 in 10 of those interviewed consider that the young generations are the most at risk of poverty.

Meanwhile, thirty-nine percent said they could not pay certain medical fees that are refunded by the government's social security system.

"These figures provide evidence of the immense distress which is experienced by more and more French people," it said.

The country's poverty threshold is currently at 60 percent of the monthly average income of 1,008 euros (1,206 U.S. dollars), according to France's national statistics institute, Insee.