PT · 2018 · tespm040
Children at risk of poverty or social exclusion
Portugal, 2018
In 2018, Portugal's children at risk of poverty or social exclusion decreased by 9.5% compared to 2017, reaching 21.9.
Portugal accounts for 93.6% of the EU-27 total of 23.4.
Portugal ranks 17th 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 30.9% (from 31.7 in 2013).
Source: Eurostat dataset tespm040, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.