BE · 2016 · tesem210
At-risk of poverty rate of unemployed persons
Belgium, 2016
In 2016, Belgium's at-risk of poverty rate of unemployed persons increased by 14.0% compared to 2015, reaching 46.4.
Belgium accounts for 95.3% of the EU-27 total of 48.7.
Belgium ranks 16th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 22.4% (from 37.9 in 2011).
Source: Eurostat dataset tesem210, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.