League Table. UNICEF Innocenti ranking of child poverty in OECD and EU countries A league table created for Report Card 18 that ranks countries based on their most recent income poverty rate and their success in reducing child poverty in a period of prosperity. The overall rank is based on a statistical average of these two indicators. UNICEF Innocenti Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 8 Slovenia Poland Latvia Republic of Korea Estonia Lithuania Czechia Japan Ireland Croatia Canada Belgium Portugal Finland Denmark Malta Netherlands (Kingdom of the) Greece New Zealand Norway Slovakia Sweden Iceland Cyprus Germany Australia Chile Romania Austria Switzerland Bulgaria United States France Italy Luxembourg Spain United Kingdom Türkiye Colombia Child Poverty in the Midst of Wealth Most recent rate of child poverty (Average 2019–2021) % 10.0 14.1 16.3 15.7 14.8 18.3 11.6 14.8 14.8 16.6 17.2 14.9 19.3 10.1 9.9 19.8 13.5 22.3 21.1 12.0 18.9 18.0 12.4 15.6 15.5 17.1 21.6 29.0 19.2 18.0 26.1 26.2 19.9 25.5 24.5 28.0 20.7 33.8 35.8 Rank 2 8 16 15 9 22 4 11 10 17 19 12 25 3 1 26 7 31 29 5 23 20 6 14 13 18 30 37 24 21 34 35 27 33 32 36 28 38 39 Change in child poverty rate (2012–2014 to 2019–2021) % -31.4 -37.6 -31.0 -29.0 -23.4 -30.6 -14.5 -18.7 -18.5 -21.8 -22.7 -17.0 -22.5 0 +3.5 -18.2 +0.7 -17.2 -11.7 +10.1 -4.9 -2.4 +11.0 +4.0 +5.0 +1.7 -7.7 -22.5 +5.3 +10.3 -8.3 -6.7 +10.4 -0.8 +3.7 -4.0 +19.6 +1.5 -2.1 Rank 2 1 3 5 6 4 16 11 12 10 7 15 9 26 30 13 27 14 17 35 21 23 38 32 33 29 19 8 34 36 18 20 37 25 31 22 39 28 24 Sources: See Technical Appendix for full details Note: UNICEF Innocenti rank is based on the average z-score for the indicators in columns 3 and 5. Due to lack of availability of data, it was not possible to include four countries in the league table – Costa Rica, Hungary, Israel and Mexico. These countries are included in other parts of the report where data are available. Innocenti Report Card 18