PT · 2017 · tespm040
Children at risk of poverty or social exclusion
Portugal, 2017
In 2017, Portugal's children at risk of poverty or social exclusion decreased by 10.4% compared to 2016, reaching 24.2.
Portugal accounts for 98.8% of the EU-27 total of 24.5.
Portugal ranks 11th 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 12.9% (from 27.8 in 2012).
Source: Eurostat dataset tespm040, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.