Child poverty is higher in the United States than in other wealthy countries

Childhood Poverty Rate

Source: Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and DevelopmentEmbed Download image
Notes: Data are for latest available year and are based on income after taxes and transfers, mirroring the SPM methodology. Provisional values are excluded. The five countries with the largest economies and those with both an above median GDP and GDP per capita, relative to all OECD countries, were included.