PT · 2017 · ilc_li02
At-risk-of-poverty rate by poverty threshold, age and sex - EU-SILC and ECHP surveys
Portugal, 2017
In 2017, Portugal's at-risk-of-poverty rate by poverty threshold, age and sex decreased by 7.1% compared to 2016, reaching 17.0%.
The figure is above the EU-27 average of 14.7%.
Portugal ranks 10th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 2.3% (from 17.4% in 2012).
Source: Eurostat dataset ilc_li02, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.