At-risk-of-poverty rate by poverty threshold, age and sex

In 2017, Italy's at-risk-of-poverty rate by poverty threshold, age and sex decreased by 1.1% compared to 2016, reaching 26.4%.

The figure is above the EU-27 average of 20.0%.

Italy ranks 4th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 0.8% (from 26.2% in 2012).

Source: Eurostat dataset ilc_li02, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.