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

In 2010, Netherlands's at-risk-of-poverty rate by poverty threshold, age and sex decreased by 23.4% compared to 2009, reaching 5.9%.

The figure is below the EU-27 average of 15.3%.

Netherlands ranks 26th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 9.3% (from 5.4% in 2005).

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