IE · 2021 · tessi022
Persistent at-risk-of poverty rate by age group - EU-SILC survey
Ireland, 2021
In 2021, Ireland's persistent at-risk-of poverty rate by age group decreased by 29.7% compared to 2020, reaching 6.40.
Ireland accounts for 60.4% of the EU-27 total of 10.6.
Ireland ranks 22nd out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 40.7% (from 10.8 in 2016).
Source: Eurostat dataset tessi022, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.