FR · 2017 · ilc_li02
At-risk-of-poverty rate by poverty threshold, age and sex - EU-SILC and ECHP surveys
France, 2017
In 2017, France's at-risk-of-poverty rate by poverty threshold, age and sex decreased by 3.7% compared to 2016, reaching 7.9%.
The figure is below the EU-27 average of 14.7%.
France ranks 26th 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 16.0% (from 9.4% in 2012).
Source: Eurostat dataset ilc_li02, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.