Poverty or social exclusion rate in European Union
20.9% of people in the European Union were at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2025. The value for 2025 is the lowest in the series, which starts in 2015.
European Union is a group: European Union, 27 member states (composition from February 2020). The value is the aggregate published by Eurostat, not an average calculated on this site.
European Union, 2025
20.9%
Change from 2024
−0.1percentage points
Poverty or social exclusion rate in European Union over time
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European Union
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% of population. Source: Eurostat. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | European Union |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 20.9% |
| 2024 | 21.0% |
| 2023 | 21.3% |
| 2022 | 21.6% |
| 2021 | 21.7% |
| 2020 | 21.5% |
| 2019 | 21.1% |
| 2018 | 21.7% |
| 2017 | 22.4% |
| 2016 | 23.7% |
| 2015 | 24.0% |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of −0.1 percentage points from 21.0% in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 24.0%, the figure has changed by −3.1 percentage points.