Vídeo: A taxa de pobreza infantil do Reino Unido é 10 vezes superior à dos países nórdicos?

is the UK’s child poverty rate 10 times that of the Nordic [Music] countries a social media post with almost 200,000 views claims that more than 30% of children in the UK live in poverty it Compares that figure to Denmark Finland Norway and Sweden which supposedly have between 2 and 4% child poverty rates however the post is [Music] misleading yes are more children in poverty in the UK than in the nordics but the numbers have been inflated this is because the post uses data from about 20 years ago for the Nordic countries and seemingly invented figures for the UK most of the Nordic numbers are from a 2005 oecd report and a calculated based on the percentage of children under 18 who lived in households with a disposable income less than 50% of the median this differs from what the social media post says that it’s based on the percentage of children living in hous below the minimum wage the same data set put the UK’s child poverty rate at about 16% back in the year 2000 the oecd last published data for all five of the countries together in 2019 back then the UK still had the worst rates of child poverty but they weren’t as damning as the post onx suggests the UK stood at 14.1% followed by Sweden at 9.3 Norway at 7.9 Denmark at 4.8 and Fin land at 3.7 more recent data from eurostat and the UK’s department for work and pensions is based on households below 60% of a country’s median income and therefore shows higher numbers than the 50% metric in 2023 Euro sta at Sweden at 19.8% Norway at 12.3 and both Denmark and Finland at 9.7 the UK’s DWP meanwhile put the country at 22.4% that year