IE · 2019 · tespn090
Relative median poverty risk gap of elderly people - EU-SILC survey
Ireland, 2019
In 2019, Ireland's relative median poverty risk gap of elderly people increased by 3.7% compared to 2018, reaching 8.40.
Ireland accounts for 47.7% of the EU-27 total of 17.6.
Ireland 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 69.8% (from 27.8 in 2014).
Source: Eurostat dataset tespn090, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.