{
  "study": {
    "slug": "child-income-inequality-in-the-eu",
    "title": "Among EU Children, Family Incomes Are Most Unequal in Bulgaria",
    "url": "https://www.silverdatalab.com/studies/child-income-inequality-in-the-eu"
  },
  "table": 1,
  "language": "en",
  "caption": "Gini coefficient among children minus that of the whole population, 2025",
  "valueHeading": "points, children minus whole population",
  "selection": "The three largest positive and the three largest negative differences among the 27 EU Member States, with the EU figure for reference.",
  "decimals": 1,
  "referenceLabel": "EU average",
  "note": "Derived by Silver Data Lab: the published coefficient for people aged under 18 minus the published coefficient for the whole population. A negative value means income is spread more evenly among children. Spain and Slovakia tie at 2.3.",
  "derived": [
    "gap_to_reference"
  ],
  "flags": "source_flag carries the publisher's own status letters on the cell: p provisional, e estimated, b break in time series, d definition differs, u low reliability, i imputed",
  "source": {
    "publisher": "Eurostat",
    "dataset": "Gini coefficient of equivalised disposable income by age",
    "code": "ilc_di12",
    "filters": {
      "freq": "A",
      "age": "TOTAL, Y_LT18",
      "statinfo": "GINI_HND",
      "time": "2025"
    },
    "extractedOn": "2026-10-21",
    "lastUpdated": "2026-10-20",
    "doi": "https://doi.org/10.2908/ilc_di12",
    "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/ilc_di12/default/table?lang=en"
  },
  "licence": {
    "analysis": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "statistics": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/about-us/policies/copyright"
  },
  "rows": [
    {
      "rank": 1,
      "name": "Bulgaria",
      "value": 3.7,
      "gap_to_reference": 4.3,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "name": "Spain",
      "value": 2.3,
      "gap_to_reference": 2.9,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 3,
      "name": "Slovakia",
      "value": 2.3,
      "gap_to_reference": 2.9,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": null,
      "name": "European Union",
      "value": -0.6,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": true,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 4,
      "name": "Sweden",
      "value": -3.1,
      "gap_to_reference": -2.5,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 5,
      "name": "Latvia",
      "value": -4.1,
      "gap_to_reference": -3.5,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 6,
      "name": "Denmark",
      "value": -4.9,
      "gap_to_reference": -4.3,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    }
  ]
}