In-work at-risk-of-poverty rate
Employed people aged 18 or over whose equivalised disposable income is below 60% of the national median after social transfers, as a percentage of all employed people aged 18 or over. People count as employed when they worked for more than half of the income reference year.
Poverty is measured on household income, so a worker can be counted as at risk of poverty because of the size or income of the household. From the EU statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC). Income refers to the previous calendar year in most countries. Eurostat flags series breaks; they are stored as status break.
Key facts
- In-work at-risk-of-poverty rate in the European Union (27) was 8.3% in 2025, according to Eurostat, European Commission.
- Bulgaria had the highest in-work at-risk-of-poverty rate of 27 EU countries in 2025, at 11.5%, and Finland the lowest, at 3.1%. Source: Eurostat, European Commission.
- Published for 28 places, with figures from 2003 to 2025.
Rankings
EU countries by in-work at-risk-of-poverty rate, 2025
Places with data
World, EU and euro area
Countries
- Germany
- France
- Italy
- Spain
- Poland
- Romania
- Netherlands
- Belgium
- Czechia
- Portugal
- Estonia
- Ireland
- Bulgaria
- Sweden
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
Use this data in your AI agent
Invokely serves this figure to AI assistants through MCP and to code through a REST API, with the source and citation attached. Ask your assistant:
Which places have the highest in-work at-risk-of-poverty rate? Use official data and cite it.
rank_places {"indicator":"in_work_poverty_rate","level":"country","within":"European Union (27)"}
GET https://invokely.ai/api/v1/rank?indicator=in_work_poverty_rate&level=country&within=European%20Union%20(27)