IE · 2016 · tessi180
Income quintile share ratio (S80/S20) by sex
Ireland, 2016
In 2016, Ireland's income quintile share ratio (s80/s20) by sex decreased by 1.1% compared to 2015, reaching 17.8.
Ireland accounts for 86.2% of the EU-27 total of 20.6.
Ireland ranks 15th 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 3.9% (from 18.5 in 2011).
Source: Eurostat dataset tessi180, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.