IE · 2022 · tepsr_spi110
At-risk-of poverty rate for children (aged less than 18) by sex
Ireland, 2022
In 2022, Ireland's at-risk-of poverty rate for children (aged less than 18) by sex increased by 6.2% compared to 2021, reaching 46.2.
Ireland accounts for 79.4% of the EU-27 total of 58.2.
Ireland 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 9.4% (from 51.0 in 2017).
Source: Eurostat dataset tepsr_spi110, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.