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

In 2009, Portugal's at-risk-of-poverty rate by poverty threshold, age and sex decreased by 3.2% compared to 2008, reaching 17.9%.

Portugal ranks 9th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 12.3% (from 20.4% in 2004).

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