SDG 1
No Poverty
End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
Ireland: SDG achieved· On track or maintaining SDG achievement
Official figures from the Sustainable Development Report 2026 (Sachs, Lafortune, Fuller, Iablonovski — SDSN), shown as published — only the layout is ours. The report is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. This site is not affiliated with or endorsed by SDSN. Imported from their published database on 2026-09-21.
What this goal covers
- •End extreme poverty everywhere (currently measured as living on less than $2.15 a day)
- •Halve the share of people living in poverty by any national definition
- •Build social protection systems that actually reach the poor and vulnerable
Simplified from the UN's official targets for this goal.
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Goal 1 score, by country
Ireland is in rank group 22 of 162 (out of 169 countries with a score for this goal).
What makes up Ireland's score (96 out of 100)
The average of 3 indicator scores, one per official target area. Each bar scores Ireland from 0 to 100 on that indicator: the best 10% of countries count as 100, the worst 5% as 0.
- 1.1 Extreme poverty · Population below the international poverty line ($3.00/day, 2021 PPP)0.1% (2023)100
- 1.1 Poverty at a higher line · Population below $4.20 a day (2021 PPP)0.1% (2023)100
- 1.2 Poverty by national definitions · Population below the national poverty line14% (2021)88
1 other indicator for this goal has no recent data for Ireland, so it isn't in the average.
Not covered: Government spending on essential services (1.a) and disaster losses for the poor (1.5) are not scored separately; disaster losses appear under goals 11 and 13.
Simplified score, may contain errors. See how it's built
Chart data: World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0) and the UN SDG Global Database (UNdata terms). Each goal score (0–100, 100 = best) averages a country's scores on several official indicators, one per main target area of the goal (4 for this goal). Each indicator is scored against a range set by the data: the best 10% of countries count as 100, the worst 5% as 0. Latest value per country since 2010; fetched 2026-09-22. The scores are calculated by this site; the underlying values are the sources', unchanged. Not covered: Government spending on essential services (1.a) and disaster losses for the poor (1.5) are not scored separately; disaster losses appear under goals 11 and 13. How the scores are built →
- Population below the international poverty line ($3.00/day, 2021 PPP) (WB SI.POV.DDAY; 1.1 Extreme poverty)
- Population below $4.20 a day (2021 PPP) (WB SI.POV.LMIC; 1.1 Poverty at a higher line)
- Population below the national poverty line (WB SI.POV.NAHC; 1.2 Poverty by national definitions)
- Coverage of social protection and labour programmes (WB per_allsp.cov_pop_tot; 1.3 Social protection)
Population with secure tenure rights to land, by county
| Galway County | 79% |
| Meath | 78% |
| Mayo | 77% |
| Roscommon | 77% |
| Clare | 76% |
| Kilkenny | 75% |
| Cork County | 75% |
| Leitrim | 75% |
| Donegal | 75% |
| Monaghan | 75% |
| Offaly | 74% |
| Kerry | 74% |
| Kildare | 73% |
| Laois | 73% |
| Wexford | 73% |
| Wicklow | 73% |
| Tipperary | 73% |
| Cavan | 73% |
| Sligo | 72% |
| Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown | 70% |
| Louth | 70% |
| Westmeath | 70% |
| Carlow | 69% |
| Limerick City and County | 69% |
| Waterford City and County | 69% |
| Fingal | 67% |
| South Dublin | 66% |
| Longford | 64% |
| Dublin City | 51% |
| Cork City | 51% |
| Galway City | 46% |
Source: CSO SDG 1.4.2 (table G0108) (2016)
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