LV · 2016 · ilc_li02
At-risk-of-poverty rate by poverty threshold, age and sex - EU-SILC and ECHP surveys
Latvia, 2016
In 2016, Latvia's at-risk-of-poverty rate by poverty threshold, age and sex decreased by 1.5% compared to 2015, reaching 19.4%.
The figure is above the EU-27 average of 16.8%.
Latvia ranks 7th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 2.0% (from 19.8% in 2011).
Source: Eurostat dataset ilc_li02, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.