EU households by number of children 2021

In 2021, 49.4 percent of households in the European Union which had children were one-child households, with 38.6 percent having two children, and 12 percent having three or more children. In this year, Bulgaria had the highest share of households with one child, Sweden had the highest share of two-child households, and Ireland had the highest share of three-child households.

Households by number of children, as a percentage of households with children in the European Union in 2021

Characteristic	One child	Two child	Three children of more
Bulgaria	62%	32.8%	5.1%
Portugal	59.9%	34.9%	5.2%
Romania	56.6%	33.4%	10%
Lithuania	55.8%	34.9%	9.3%
Malta	54.9%	35.2%	9.9%
Italy	54.8%	37.9%	7.3%
Hungary	53.6%	32.9%	13.6%
Spain	53.3%	38.3%	8.5%
Latvia	52.8%	35.1%	12.1%
Slovakia	51.1%	37.2%	11.7%
Cyprus	50.2%	38.6%	11.1%
Germany	49.7%	38.2%	12.1%
Estonia	49.6%	35.8%	14.6%
Czechia	49.6%	41.2%	9.2%
EU27	49.4%	38.6%	12%
Poland	48.9%	40.3%	10.8%
Austria	47.7%	38.6%	13.7%
Luxembourg	47.4%	40.8%	11.6%
Greece	47.2%	37%	15.7%
Denmark	45.1%	41.4%	13.5%
Croatia	44.7%	38.7%	16.5%
France	44.2%	39.6%	16.2%
Slovenia	43.7%	42.4%	13.9%
Finland	43.7%	37.8%	18.5%
Belgium	43.4%	40.4%	16.2%
Netherlands	40.3%	44%	15.7%
Ireland	38.6%	38.6%	22.8%
Sweden	37.2%	47%	15.8%

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May 2022

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Europe

Survey time period

2021

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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