EU 20.40
· European ranking
16 / 30
Up 6 positions compared with previous year
Ireland: Poverty & Social Exclusion Risk
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
18.80% of people
EU 20.40 · -1.6 pp vs Europe
What this indicator measures
Measures the share of people experiencing at least one of three conditions: risk of poverty after social transfers, severe material and social deprivation, or living in a household with very low work intensity. People meeting more than one condition are counted only once.
Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.
Data source: Eurostat Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion ILC_PEPS11N
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Regional map
· 2025 · 3 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+31.38
24.70
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2-3.19
18.20
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3-9.04
17.10
More context on this indicator
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.