{
  "study": {
    "slug": "family-benefits-in-the-eu",
    "title": "Poland Gives Families More of Its Social Spending Than Any Other EU Country",
    "url": "https://www.silverdatalab.com/studies/family-benefits-in-the-eu"
  },
  "table": 1,
  "language": "en",
  "caption": "Family and children benefits as a share of all social benefits, 2025",
  "valueHeading": "% of social benefits",
  "selection": "The three Member States with the largest share and the three with the smallest, against the share for the EU as a whole.",
  "decimals": 1,
  "referenceLabel": "EU share",
  "note": "Published by Eurostat to two decimals and rounded here to one; every 2025 value is a Eurostat estimate. Romania, at 11.5%, is fourth largest; the Netherlands, at 5.5%, is fourth smallest.",
  "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": "Social benefits by function - % of total benefits",
    "code": "tps00106",
    "filters": {
      "freq": "A",
      "unit": "PC_BEN",
      "spdeps": "SPR",
      "spfunc": "FAM",
      "time": "2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025"
    },
    "extractedOn": "2026-10-24",
    "lastUpdated": "2026-10-23",
    "doi": "https://doi.org/10.2908/tps00106",
    "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/tps00106/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": "Poland",
      "value": 15.04,
      "gap_to_reference": 6.4,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": "e"
    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "name": "Luxembourg",
      "value": 13.92,
      "gap_to_reference": 5.2,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": "e"
    },
    {
      "rank": 3,
      "name": "Germany",
      "value": 11.83,
      "gap_to_reference": 3.2,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": "e"
    },
    {
      "rank": null,
      "name": "European Union",
      "value": 8.68,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": true,
      "source_flag": "e"
    },
    {
      "rank": 4,
      "name": "Spain",
      "value": 5.42,
      "gap_to_reference": -3.3,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": "e"
    },
    {
      "rank": 5,
      "name": "Cyprus",
      "value": 4.75,
      "gap_to_reference": -3.9,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": "e"
    },
    {
      "rank": 6,
      "name": "Greece",
      "value": 4.6,
      "gap_to_reference": -4.1,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": "e"
    }
  ]
}