IE · 2019 · tessi020
Persistent at-risk-of poverty rate by sex - EU-SILC survey
Ireland, 2019
In 2019, Ireland's persistent at-risk-of poverty rate by sex decreased by 16.2% compared to 2018, reaching 8.80.
Ireland accounts for 79.3% of the EU-27 total of 11.1.
Ireland ranks 16th 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 24.1% (from 11.6 in 2014).
Source: Eurostat dataset tessi020, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.