IE · 2019 · tespn050
At-risk-of-poverty rate of older people by detailed age group - EU-SILC survey
Ireland, 2019
In 2019, Ireland's at-risk-of-poverty rate of older people by detailed age group decreased by 41.8% compared to 2018, reaching 12.1.
Ireland accounts for 75.6% of the EU-27 total of 16.0.
Ireland ranks 22nd 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 11.7% (from 13.7 in 2014).
Source: Eurostat dataset tespn050, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.