IE · 2018 · tessi010
At-risk-of-poverty rate by sex
Ireland, 2018
In 2018, Ireland's at-risk-of-poverty rate by sex decreased by 4.5% compared to 2017, reaching 44.7.
Ireland accounts for 88.7% of the EU-27 total of 50.4.
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 5.1% (from 47.1 in 2013).
Source: Eurostat dataset tessi010, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.