Income, Wealth & Poverty

The European Union, Norway and Switzerland received nearly 66,000 asylum applications from unaccompanied minor migrants (those younger than 18 applying without a parent or guardian) in 2016, a decline of nearly 40% from 2015’s record total but still well above the total of prior years, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of data from Eurostat, the EU’s statistical agency.

Beyond partisan differences over economic policies, there are stark divisions on a fundamental question: What makes someone rich or poor?

As part of a new study, Pew Research Center designed income calculators to help you determine where you fit on the income ladder in Western Europe.

A Pew Research Center analysis of income data from 11 Western European countries finds considerable differences in the fortunes of the middle classes in those countries. See where you fall on your country's income ladder.

The fortunes of the middle classes across Western Europe are moving in different directions. Some nations are experiencing both growing incomes and expanding middle classes, while other nations are witness to stagnant or declining incomes and shrinking middle classes, a new Pew Research Center analysis of 11 Western European countries has found. But in a few other countries studied, the middle-class shares are decreasing even as incomes overall are rising.

From 1991 to 2010, the middle class expands in France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, but, as in the United States, shrinks in Germany, Italy and Spain

See where you are in the distribution of adults in the United Kingdom by income tier.

Guarda dove ti trovi nella distribuzione degli adulti in Italia in base alla fascia di reddito.

Se, hvor du er i fordelingen af den voksne befolkning i Danmark efter indkomstniveau.

The most frequently cited reason for not taking family or medical leave when one needs or wants to is concern over loss of wages or salary.