BE · 2020 · ilc_li02
At-risk-of-poverty rate by poverty threshold, age and sex - EU-SILC and ECHP surveys
Belgium, 2020
In 2020, Belgium's at-risk-of-poverty rate by poverty threshold, age and sex decreased by 4.6% compared to 2019, reaching 14.4%.
The figure is below the EU-27 average of 17.5%.
Belgium ranks 18th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 7.7% (from 15.6% in 2015).
Source: Eurostat dataset ilc_li02, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.