It might be thought that richer countries would be more successful in tackling child poverty. However, Figure 2 shows that there is only a weak tendency for richer countries to have lower child poverty rates.9 This can be seen by comparing pairs of countries, for example: → Spain (ES) and Slovenia (SI) have similar levels of per capita national income – below the average among this group of countries – but Slovenia has a far lower child poverty rate (10 per cent) than Spain (28 per cent). → Similarly, the United States (US) has a very similar national income per person to Denmark’s (DK) but an average child poverty rate between 2019 and 2021 that is more than double that of Denmark’s (although the United States did show some improvement in 2021). → Switzerland (CH) has a national income per person four times that of Czechia (CZ) but a child poverty rate over 6 percentage points higher. Thus high national income is no guarantee of success in tackling child poverty, and richer countries within the Report Card have much to learn from poorer ones. Figure 2. National income and child poverty, 2019 – 2021 35 Sources: See Technical Appendix CO 30 RO ES MX BG Child poverty (%) (2019–2021) US IT 25 LU GR CL 20 NZ GB SK LT HR 15 PL FR PT MT AT SE CA LV CY EE KR JP CH AU DE BE NL IE NO CZ FI SI 10 DK 5 0 10,000 20,000 30,000 40,000 50,000 60,000 70,000 80,000 Gross national income per capita (constant 2015 US$, average for 2019–2021) 12 Child Poverty in the Midst of Wealth Innocenti Report Card 18