Child well-being — Children experiencing severe housing deprivation by country
This dataset contains key internationally comparable indicators on children’s well being outcomes, a range of additional context indicators on important drivers of child well being, and child relevant public policies. The dataset is built using the latest available data from OECD databases and a range of leading...
What the numbers show
Child well-being — Children experiencing severe housing deprivation is currently reported for 19 countries. The highest value is 24.6 in Romania; the lowest is 1.4 in Finland.
The median across all reporting countries is 4.7, and the mean is 6.84.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 18.
Over the past decade 9 countries rose and 10 fell. The largest increase was in Ireland (up 233.3%), and the largest decrease in Czechia (down 54.1%).
Child well-being — Children experiencing severe housing deprivation: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romania | 24.6 | 2020 | down 40.1% | falling |
| 2 | Bulgaria | 19.7 | 2020 | down 32.8% | falling |
| 3 | Hungary | 16.2 | 2020 | down 41.1% | falling |
| 4 | Greece | 8.9 | 2020 | up 12.7% | rising |
| 5 | Portugal | 7.5 | 2020 | down 7.4% | falling |
| 6 | Italy | 6.4 | 2019 | down 37.9% | falling |
| 7 | France | 6.2 | 2020 | up 40.9% | rising |
| 7 | Spain | 6.2 | 2020 | up 113.8% | rising |
| 9 | Austria | 4.8 | 2020 | down 30.4% | falling |
| 10 | Sweden | 4.7 | 2020 | up 135.0% | rising |
| 11 | Belgium | 4 | 2020 | up 14.3% | rising |
| 12 | Denmark | 3.8 | 2020 | down 22.4% | falling |
| 13 | Luxembourg | 3.4 | 2020 | up 21.4% | rising |
| 13 | Czechia | 3.4 | 2020 | down 54.1% | falling |
| 15 | Ireland | 3 | 2020 | up 233.3% | rising |
| 16 | Switzerland | 2.6 | 2020 | up 13.0% | rising |
| 17 | Iceland | 1.7 | 2018 | down 39.3% | falling |
| 18 | Norway | 1.5 | 2020 | down 6.2% | falling |
| 19 | Finland | 1.4 | 2020 | up 55.6% | rising |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Latvia 15.9
- Poland 10.7
- Croatia 6.9
- United Kingdom 6.1
- Slovenia 4.7
- Slovak Republic 4.3
- Estonia 2.9
- Lithuania 2.8
- Netherlands 2.3
About this data
This dataset contains key internationally comparable indicators on children’s well being outcomes, a range of additional context indicators on important drivers of child well being, and child relevant public policies. The dataset is built using the latest available data from OECD databases and a range of leading international child surveys and data collection programmes. Indicators are selected based on a multi-dimensional and forward looking approach to child well-being, centred on the idea that children should be able to both enjoy a “good” positive childhood in the here and now, and have the opportunity to develop skills and abilities that set them up well for the future. While the data look to cover the well-being of children of all ages, limitations in data availability mean that most indicators focus on those in middle childhood and adolescence. This dataset represents a selection of headline indicators from the OECD Child Well-being Data Portal, a tool for policy makers and the public to monitor countries’ efforts to promote child well being. It is built on the OECD's Child Well-being Measurement Framework as set out in the OECD's 2021 report Measuring What Matters for Child Well-being and Policies.