EL · 2016 · ilc_li02
At-risk-of-poverty rate by poverty threshold, age and sex - EU-SILC and ECHP surveys
Greece, 2016
In 2016, Greece's at-risk-of-poverty rate by poverty threshold, age and sex decreased by 9.5% compared to 2015, reaching 12.4%.
The figure is below the EU-27 average of 14.3%.
Greece ranks 19th 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 47.5% (from 23.6% in 2011).
Source: Eurostat dataset ilc_li02, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.