IE · 2020 · tespm040
Children at risk of poverty or social exclusion
Ireland, 2020
In 2020, Ireland's children at risk of poverty or social exclusion decreased by 9.8% compared to 2019, reaching 22.1.
Ireland accounts for 93.6% of the EU-27 total of 23.6.
Ireland ranks 13th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 23.8% (from 29.0 in 2015).
Source: Eurostat dataset tespm040, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.