A group of children smiling at the camera.

Did you know that there were 47.6 million households with dependent children across the EU in 2024, and that 6.1 million of them were single-parent households? Or that in EU primary schools, there was an average of 13 pupils per teacher in 2023? And did you know that, in 2024, 3% of children who needed medical care were unable to receive it?

Eurostat has prepared a colourful infographic presenting key data on children in the EU, including childcare arrangements, education, health, social inclusion and more.

Children's health in the EU, 2024. Infographic. See links to the full datasets below.

Source datasets: ilc_hch12 and ilc_hch14

Discover more on the youngest generation in our thematic section on children and youth.

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