PT · 2018 · tepsr_spi110
At-risk-of poverty rate for children (aged less than 18) by sex
Portugal, 2018
In 2018, Portugal's at-risk-of poverty rate for children (aged less than 18) by sex decreased by 8.2% compared to 2017, reaching 57.0.
Portugal accounts for 96.9% of the EU-27 total of 58.8.
Portugal 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 22.1% (from 73.2 in 2013).
Source: Eurostat dataset tepsr_spi110, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.