European ranking
35 / 35
No change from the previous year
Iceland: At-risk-of-poverty rate
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
Iceland
Current reading for At-risk-of-poverty rate in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate
Latest value
7.40 Percent of people
Compared with Europe
-9.3 puntos
Iceland is 9.3 points below the European average.
EU: 16.71
Affected population
≈ 0.03 million people affected
Year: 2022
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Indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate
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At a glance
Iceland performs more favourably than the European benchmark on At-risk-of-poverty rate, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent stabilization. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength.
European comparison in Iceland
In Iceland, Poverty risk stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 7.4% versus 16.7% in 2022, a large gap of 9.3 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Iceland, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 10.10% in 2017 to 7.40% in 2022. The latest value changes little from 7.40% in 2021, indicating a pause in the previous improvement.
Reading within the topic
In Iceland, the evidence for Poverty & Financial Vulnerability leans towards relatively favourable performance compared with Europe, without a clear pressure signal dominating the picture. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.