BE · 2019 · tespm040
Children at risk of poverty or social exclusion
Belgium, 2019
In 2019, Belgium's children at risk of poverty or social exclusion decreased by 3.9% compared to 2018, reaching 22.1.
Belgium accounts for 99.1% of the EU-27 total of 22.3.
Belgium ranks 15th 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 4.7% (from 23.2 in 2014).
Source: Eurostat dataset tespm040, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.