The Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) in Ireland is a household survey covering a broad range of issues in relation to income and living conditions. It is the official source of data on household and individual income and provides a number of key national poverty indicators, such as the at risk of poverty rate, the consistent poverty rate and rates of enforced deprivation. This report presents the results for 2019 and comparable data for previous years.
Table 1.1 Summary of main results | ||||||
2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | |
Income | € | € | € | € | € | € |
Nominal household disposable income | ||||||
Median | 35,305 | 37,401 | 38,953 | 39,499 | 42,865 | 43,552 |
Mean | 43,067 | 44,827 | 46,310 | 48,476 | 51,458 | 53,118 |
Nominal equivalised disposable income per individual | ||||||
Median | 18,385 | 19,461 | 20,331 | 20,869 | 22,872 | 23,979 |
Mean | 22,041 | 22,984 | 23,682 | 24,983 | 26,766 | 27,941 |
At risk of poverty threshold | ||||||
(60% of median income) | 11,031 | 11,677 | 12,199 | 12,521 | 13,723 | 14,387 |
Poverty & deprivation rates | % | % | % | % | % | % |
At risk of poverty rate | 16.7 | 16.3 | 16.2 | 15.7 | 14.0 | 12.8 |
Deprivation rate1 | 28.9 | 25.4 | 21.0 | 18.8 | 15.1 | 17.8 |
Deprivation rate for those at risk of poverty | 49.7 | 51.9 | 50.4 | 42.8 | 40.3 | 42.7 |
Consistent poverty rate | 8.3 | 8.5 | 8.2 | 6.7 | 5.6 | 5.5 |
Income equality indicators | ||||||
Gini coefficient (%) | 32.1 | 30.8 | 30.7 | 31.5 | 29.7 | 28.8 |
Income quintile share ratio | 5.1 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 4.1 |
1 Experienced two or more types of enforced deprivation. |
The main results for SILC 2019 are presented below:
At risk of poverty rate (%) | Nominal Median equivalised disposable income (€ per individual) | Nominal At risk of poverty threshold (60% of median income) | |
2004 | 19.4 | 16128 | 9677 |
2005 | 18.3 | 16697 | 10018 |
2006 | 17 | 17610 | 10566 |
2007 | 16.5 | 19794 | 11876 |
2008 | 14.4 | 20758 | 12455 |
2009 | 14.1 | 20107 | 12064 |
2010 | 14.7 | 18591 | 11155 |
2011 | 16 | 18148 | 10889 |
2012 | 16.9 | 17937 | 10762 |
2013 | 16.2 | 17983 | 10790 |
2014 | 16.7 | 18385 | 11031 |
2015 | 16.3 | 19461 | 11677 |
2016 | 16.2 | 20331 | 12199 |
2017 | 15.7 | 20869 | 12521 |
2018 | 14 | 22872 | 13723 |
2019 | 12.8 | 23979 | 14387 |
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