IE · 2018 · tesem210
At-risk of poverty rate of unemployed persons
Ireland, 2018
In 2018, Ireland's at-risk of poverty rate of unemployed persons increased by 14.6% compared to 2017, reaching 47.8.
Ireland accounts for 98.4% of the EU-27 total of 48.6.
Ireland ranks 14th 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 29.2% (from 37.0 in 2013).
Source: Eurostat dataset tesem210, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.