1 Data in this table are obtained from the EU Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU SILC). Rates are calculated using a Eurostat definition of income and modified OECD equivalence scale (see Appendix 1).
Ireland had the second highest percentage of population in the EU in 2013 at risk of poverty, before pensions and social transfers, at 49.8%.
However the at risk of poverty rate in Ireland, (after pensions and social transfers), of 14.1% was the seventh lowest rate in the EU.
Less than one in ten of the Czech Republic population was at risk of poverty (after pensions and social transfers) in 2013. Just under a quarter of the Greek population was at risk of poverty (after pensions and social transfers).
The at risk of poverty rate in Ireland, as calculated by Eurostat, has declined from 20.9% in 2004 to 14.1% in 2013, a drop of 6.8 percentage points.
The at risk of poverty rate in Ireland was 16.3% in 2014, with just under one in six of the population at risk of poverty.
The at risk of poverty rate was highest for those aged under 18, with 18.6% of this age group at risk of poverty. People aged 65 and over had an at risk of poverty risk of just over half this rate, at 10.3%.
The consistent poverty rate was 8% in 2014. An individual is considered to be in consistent poverty when they are at risk of poverty and are also experiencing enforced deprivation, (see Appendix 1).
Just under one in eight children (11.2%) were in consistent poverty in Ireland in 2014 while the rate for those aged 65 and over was 2.1%.
Over three out of every ten (32%) Irish households composed of one adult with children aged under 18 were at risk of poverty in 2014. The consistent poverty rate for these households was 22.1%.
Other households with children aged under 18 had an at risk of poverty rate of 23.4% while the consistent poverty rate for these households was 11.9%.
Single person households where the person was aged under 65 also had a high rate of at risk of poverty (25.7%) and consistent poverty (14.1%).
The lowest at risk of poverty rates were in households with two adults, (both aged < 65), while the lowest consistent povety rate, at 1.9%, was in households with two adults where at least one of whom was aged over 65.
Over a third of Irish households with an unemployed head of household were at risk of poverty in 2014. These households also had a high rate of consistent poverty at 22.6%.
In contrast, households where the head of household was at work had an at risk of poverty rate of 6.1% and a consistent poverty rate of just 2.4%.
Female employees were paid 14.4% an hour less than male employees in Ireland in 2012. This gave Ireland the eleventh lowest gender pay gap in the EU in 2012, when the average EU gender pay gap was 16.6%.
The lowest gender pay gap in the EU in 2014 was in Slovenia at 2.9% while the highest was in Estonia at 28.3%.
More than four out five (82%) private households in Ireland had internet access in 2014, compared to 72% in 2010.
Ireland had the eleventh highest rate of internet access for households in the EU in 2014, just above the EU average rate of 81%.
Six countries - Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom had household internet access rates of 90% of more in 2014.
The lowest rate of household internet access was in Bulgaria at 57%.
