EU 20.40
· European ranking
20 / 30
Down 6 positions compared with previous year
Luxembourg: Poverty & Social Exclusion Risk
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
18.20% of people
EU 20.40 · -2.2 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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Internal regions
No regional breakdown available for this indicator.
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At a glance
Luxembourg 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 confirmed improvement. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength.
European comparison in Luxembourg
In Luxembourg, Poverty or exclusion is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 18.2% versus 20.4% in 2025, with a gap of 2.2 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Luxembourg, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 19.90% in 2020 to 18.20% in 2025. The latest step, from 20.00% in 2024 to 18.20% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal is stronger than the primary one.
Reading within the topic
In Luxembourg, 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.