BE · 2020 · tepsr_spi110
At-risk-of poverty rate for children (aged less than 18) by sex
Belgium, 2020
In 2020, Belgium's at-risk-of poverty rate for children (aged less than 18) by sex decreased by 18.9% compared to 2019, reaching 46.2.
Belgium accounts for 79.4% of the EU-27 total of 58.2.
Belgium ranks 18th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 14.4% (from 54.0 in 2015).
Source: Eurostat dataset tepsr_spi110, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.