IE · 2018 · tepsr_spi110
At-risk-of poverty rate for children (aged less than 18) by sex
Ireland, 2018
In 2018, Ireland's at-risk-of poverty rate for children (aged less than 18) by sex decreased by 7.1% compared to 2017, reaching 47.4.
Ireland accounts for 80.6% of the EU-27 total of 58.8.
Ireland ranks 18th 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 13.2% (from 54.6 in 2013).
Source: Eurostat dataset tepsr_spi110, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.