BE · 2020 · tespm040
Children at risk of poverty or social exclusion
Belgium, 2020
In 2020, Belgium's children at risk of poverty or social exclusion decreased by 8.1% compared to 2019, reaching 20.3.
Belgium accounts for 86.0% of the EU-27 total of 23.6.
Belgium ranks 16th 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 12.9% (from 23.3 in 2015).
Source: Eurostat dataset tespm040, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.