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 third highest percentage of population in the EU in 2014 at risk of poverty, before pensions and social transfers, at 48.8%.
However the at risk of poverty rate in Ireland, (after pensions and social transfers), of 15.6% was the thirteenth lowest rate in the EU.
The lowest at risk of poverty rate (after pensions and social transfers) in 2014 in the EU was in the Czech Republic at 9.7% while the highest rate was in Romania at 25.4%.
The at risk of poverty rate in Ireland, as calculated by Eurostat, declined from 18.5% in 2006 to 15% by 2009 before rising to 15.7% in 2012. In 2013 the rate dropped to 14.1% before increasing to 15.6% in 2014.
The at risk of poverty rate in Ireland was 16.9% in 2015, with just over one in six of the population at risk of poverty.
The at risk of poverty rate was highest for those aged under 18, with 19.5% of this age group at risk of poverty. People aged 65 and over had an at risk of poverty rate of just over half this rate, at 10.7%.
The consistent poverty rate was 8.7% in 2015. 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 (11.5%) were in consistent poverty in Ireland in 2015 while the rate for those aged 65 and over was 2.7%.
More than a third (36.2%) of Irish households composed of one adult with children aged under 18 were at risk of poverty in 2015. The consistent poverty rate for these households was 26.2%.
Single person households where the person was aged under 65 also had a high rate of at risk of poverty (34.8%) and consistent poverty (17.7%).
Other households with children aged under 18 had an at risk of poverty rate of 21.9% while the consistent poverty rate for these households was 13.4%.
The lowest at risk of poverty rate of 9.6% was in households with two adults, at least one of whom was aged 65 or over. These households also had the lowest consistent poverty rate of 2.4%.
Female employees were paid 13.9% an hour less than male employees in Ireland in 2014. This gave Ireland the tenth lowest gender pay gap in the EU in 2015, when the average EU gender pay gap was 16.3%.
The lowest gender pay gap in the EU in 2015 was in Romania at 5.8% while the highest was in Estonia at 26.9%.
More than five out of six private households (85%) in Ireland had internet access in 2015, compared to 78% in 2011.
Ireland had the ninth highest rate of internet access for households in the EU in 2015, just above the EU average rate of 83%.
Seven countries - Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Germany and Finland had household internet access rates of 90% of more in 2015.
The lowest rate of household internet access was in Bulgaria at 59%.