BE · 2025 · tesem210
At-risk of poverty rate of unemployed persons
Belgium, 2025
In 2025, Belgium's at-risk of poverty rate of unemployed persons decreased by 5.6% compared to 2024, reaching 40.4.
Belgium accounts for 81.9% of the EU-27 total of 49.3.
Belgium ranks 23rd out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 19.4% (from 50.1 in 2020).
Source: Eurostat dataset tesem210, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.