RO · 2020 · ilc_li02
At-risk-of-poverty rate by poverty threshold, age and sex - EU-SILC and ECHP surveys
Romania, 2020
In 2020, Romania's at-risk-of-poverty rate by poverty threshold, age and sex decreased by 1.7% compared to 2019, reaching 23.4%.
The figure is above the EU-27 average of 16.7%.
Romania ranks 2nd 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 7.9% (from 25.4% in 2015).
Source: Eurostat dataset ilc_li02, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.