{
  "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": 2,
  "language": "en",
  "caption": "Gini coefficient of equivalised disposable income, children under 18, 2025",
  "valueHeading": "Gini coefficient, 0-100",
  "selection": "Three highest and three lowest EU Member States, with the EU aggregate for reference.",
  "decimals": 1,
  "referenceLabel": "EU average",
  "note": "Lithuania's value is provisional in the source. Luxembourg, not shown, carries a break-in-series flag for 2025.",
  "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 for children (aged less than 18)",
    "code": "tessi191",
    "filters": {
      "freq": "A",
      "age": "Y_LT18",
      "statinfo": "GINI_HND"
    },
    "extractedOn": "2026-10-21",
    "lastUpdated": "2026-10-20",
    "doi": "https://doi.org/10.2908/tessi191",
    "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/tessi191/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": 41.4,
      "gap_to_reference": 12.8,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "name": "Lithuania",
      "value": 33.2,
      "gap_to_reference": 4.6,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": "p"
    },
    {
      "rank": 3,
      "name": "Spain",
      "value": 33.1,
      "gap_to_reference": 4.5,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": null,
      "name": "European Union",
      "value": 28.6,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": true,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 4,
      "name": "Netherlands",
      "value": 23.1,
      "gap_to_reference": -5.5,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 5,
      "name": "Slovenia",
      "value": 22.6,
      "gap_to_reference": -6,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 6,
      "name": "Belgium",
      "value": 20.6,
      "gap_to_reference": -8,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    }
  ]
}