PT · 2019 · tepsr_spi110
At-risk-of poverty rate for children (aged less than 18) by sex
Portugal, 2019
In 2019, Portugal's at-risk-of poverty rate for children (aged less than 18) by sex decreased by 2.6% compared to 2018, reaching 55.5.
Portugal accounts for 98.9% of the EU-27 total of 56.1.
Portugal ranks 13th 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 27.7% (from 76.8 in 2014).
Source: Eurostat dataset tepsr_spi110, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.