IE · 2016 · tesem210
At-risk of poverty rate of unemployed persons
Ireland, 2016
In 2016, Ireland's at-risk of poverty rate of unemployed persons increased by 0.5% compared to 2015, reaching 40.7.
Ireland accounts for 83.6% of the EU-27 total of 48.7.
Ireland ranks 23rd out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 25.6% (from 32.4 in 2011).
Source: Eurostat dataset tesem210, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.