Portugal’s At-Risk-of-Poverty Rate, 2015–2024

Population at risk of poverty after social transfers; percent, 2015–2024.

What the Data Shows

Portugal’s at-risk-of-poverty rate after social transfers is tracked from 2015 through 2024. The rate measures the share of people living below the national at-risk-of-poverty threshold after cash social transfers. The rate declined from 19.0% in 2015 to 15.4% in 2024. The decade’s temporary high after 2015 was 18.4% in 2020, followed by a 3.0-point decline through 2024.

Data table

Latest 15.4 2024
Period high 19.0 2015
Change since 2015 −3.6 pp to 2024

Data notes & caveats

The series uses the total population measure rather than employment-status subgroups.

Methodology

The annual rate is the share of Portugal’s population below the national at-risk-of-poverty threshold after social transfers.

Source consistency notes

Every annual value uses the same poverty threshold concept, percent unit and national population basis.

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