PT · 2017 · tepsr_spi110
At-risk-of poverty rate for children (aged less than 18) by sex
Portugal, 2017
In 2017, Portugal's at-risk-of poverty rate for children (aged less than 18) by sex decreased by 7.6% compared to 2016, reaching 62.1.
Portugal accounts for 103.5% of the EU-27 total of 60.0.
Portugal ranks 9th 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 5.0% (from 65.4 in 2012).
Source: Eurostat dataset tepsr_spi110, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.