IE · 2017 · tessi010
At-risk-of-poverty rate by sex
Ireland, 2017
In 2017, Ireland's at-risk-of-poverty rate by sex decreased by 7.1% compared to 2016, reaching 46.8.
Ireland accounts for 92.3% of the EU-27 total of 50.7.
Ireland ranks 17th 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 4.3% (from 48.9 in 2012).
Source: Eurostat dataset tessi010, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.