IE · 2017 · tesem210
At-risk of poverty rate of unemployed persons
Ireland, 2017
In 2017, Ireland's at-risk of poverty rate of unemployed persons increased by 2.5% compared to 2016, reaching 41.7.
Ireland accounts for 87.8% of the EU-27 total of 47.5.
Ireland ranks 24th 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 19.5% (from 34.9 in 2012).
Source: Eurostat dataset tesem210, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.