• Households by number of children Europe 2019

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In 2019, 47.4 percent of households in the European Union which had children were one-child households, with 39.9 percent having two children, and 12.7 percent having three or more children. In this year, Portugal had the highest share of households with one child, Sweden had the highest share of two-child households, and Turkey had the highest share of three-child households.

Households by number of children, as a percentage of households with children in selected European countries in 2019

Characteristic	One child	Two child	Three children of more
Portugal	58.3%	35%	6.7%
Bulgaria	57.1%	36.8%	6.2%
Lithuania	55.9%	35.1%	9%
Latvia	54.7%	33.7%	11.6%
Romania	53.1%	36.9%	10.1%
Italy	52.1%	39.8%	8.1%
Hungary	50.4%	35.5%	14%
Estonia	50.1%	37%	12.8%
Germany	50%	37.6%	12.3%
Spain	50%	40.9%	9.1%
Malta	49%	38.8%	12.2%
Austria	48.1%	38%	13.9%
EU27	47.4%	39.9%	12.7%
Slovakia	46.9%	40.2%	12.9%
Greece	46.6%	43%	10.5%
Czechia	45.8%	43.7%	10.5%
Slovenia	45.3%	43.6%	11.1%
Cyprus	45.1%	41.4%	13.4%
Poland	45.1%	41.6%	13.2%
Serbia	45%	43.4%	11.6%
Denmark	44.4%	40.6%	15%
Luxembourg	42.8%	43.7%	13.5%
United Kingdom	42.7%	40.7%	16.6%
Croatia	42.5%	42.8%	14.7%
France	41.9%	40.2%	18%
Belgium	41.6%	40.3%	18.1%
Finland	41.5%	38.2%	20.3%
North Macedonia	40.3%	43.7%	16%
Netherlands	39.6%	43.7%	16.7%
Turkey	39%	35.2%	25.9%
Montenegro	36.4%	37.9%	25.7%
Ireland	36.1%	38.7%	25.2%
Sweden	35.8%	49.9%	14.3%

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May 2020

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Europe

Survey time period

2019

Supplementary notes

The data collection 'LFS - specific topics, household statistics' covers a range of statistics on number, characteristics and typologies of households, based on the European Union Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS). The data collection also encompasses some labour market indicators broken down by household composition. Only annual data are available.

Data coverage corresponds to code "lfst_hhnhtych" of the EU-LFS series.

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