Child poverty in Denmark 2002-2006

This report illustrates trends in the percentage of poor children in Denmark in the period 2002-2006 and the children particularly exposed to poverty.
Trends are analysed on the basis of two relative poverty limits set at 50% and 60% of median income, respectively. In the period surveyed, the percentage of children in poverty increased from 2002 to 2005, after which it decreased slightly in 2006. However, altogether the percentage has increased.
Trends are also analysed on the basis of an implicit poverty limit calculated on a fictitious level of social assistance. According to this analysis, the percentage is almost constant from 2002-2005, whereas it decreases slightly in 2006, as in the two other poverty measurements.
Children with particularly high risk of being poor are young children, children of single parents, children of parents without qualifying education, children of unemployed parents, children of self-employed parents, as well as children of immigrants and descendants of immigrants. The latter group is particularly vulnerable, and children from this group continue to make up a larger percentage of poor children.
Analyses are based on register data from Statistics Denmark . The report was commissioned and funded by Save the Children.