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Ireland: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.

Country: Ireland Indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion Year: 2025

Country overview

Ireland

Current reading for Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

Latest value

18.80 Percent of people

European ranking

17 / 30

Compared with Europe

-1.2 puntos

Ireland is 1.2 points below the European average.

EU: 20.04

Affected population

≈ 1.02 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 18.80 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 20.40 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Northern and Western

    +31.40

    24.70

  2. 2

    Southern

    -3.20

    18.20

  3. 3

    Eastern and Midland

    -9.00

    17.10

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At a glance

Ireland performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to recent departure from stability. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Ireland

In Ireland, Poverty or exclusion is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 18.8% versus 20.4% in 2025, with a gap of 1.6 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Ireland, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 19.10% in 2020 to 18.80% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 17.10% in 2024 to 18.80% in 2025, departs from that stability with a deterioration.

Regional differences in Ireland

In Ireland, regional values for Poverty or exclusion are relatively close. Across 3 comparable regions, Northern and Western Ireland records the highest value (24.7%) and Eastern and Midland Ireland the lowest (17.1%), a gap of 7.6 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Ireland, Poverty & Financial Vulnerability shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.