In Oceania, Australia has a relative child poverty rate of 14 percent, and New Zealand one of 12 percent.
Western Europe experiences the lowest rates of relative child poverty of any region, led by the Netherlands and
Sweden at 6 percent and 7 percent, respectively, which are the lowest rates in the world. France, Germany, Ireland, and
the United Kingdom all have rates of approximately 10 percent. Italy and Spain have higher rates, around 20 percent.
In Eastern Europe, between 12 percent and 26 percent of children live in households with incomes below 50 percent
of the country’s median income. Poland has the region’s lowest relative poverty rate, at 12 percent, whereas Romania has
the highest, at 26 percent. In Hungary, where the relative poverty rate had been the lowest in the region at 11 percent in
2007, the proportion of children living in relative poverty increased by six percentage points to 17 percent in 2012.