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Family benefits and child supplements

How many individuals and families receive family benefits and child supplements in a quarter? How much money do they receive? The statistics on family benefits and child supplements include child benefit and youth benefit as well as child benefit in case of single parents, unknown or dead parent and multiple births.

Selected statistics on Family benefits and child supplements

This page shows selected popular statistics on the subject of Family benefits and child supplements. In Statbank Denmark, you can find more data and compile your own statistics.

Families receiving family benefits and child supplements

In the following, you can see how many families (single parents or couples) receive different types of familiy benefits and/or child supplements in the 4th quarter of the given year. It is possible to receive several benefits and supplements for the same child.
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Last update
4.4.2024
Next update
4.4.2025
Source data

Data on child benefit and family allowance for payment stems from ATP / Udbetaling Danmark

Payment across benefit types and number of children

In the following, you can see the average quarterly payment of various benefit types distributed according to the number of children in the 4th quarter of the given year.
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Last update
4.4.2024
Next update
4.4.2025
Source data

Data on child benefit and family allowance for payment stems from ATP / Udbetaling Danmark

Single parents receiving child supplements

In the following, you can see the proportion per thousand (per mille) of single parents in Denmark who receive family benefits and child supplements across benefit types. 
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Last update
4.4.2024
Next update
4.4.2025
Source data

Data on child benefit and family allowance for payment stems from ATP / Udbetaling Danmark

On the statistics – documentation, sources and method

Gain an overview of the purpose, contents and quality of the statistics. Learn about the data sources of the statistics, the contents of the statistics and how often they are published.

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Child Subsidy and Family Allowance

The purpose of the statistics about child benefit and family allowance is to illustrate the number of recipients of child benefit and family allowance plus the payments and the number of children they receive payments for. The statistics of child benefit has been published from the tax year 1957/58, but the current format dates back to 2017.

Need more data on Family benefits and child supplements?

You can find more information in StatBank Denmark with more detailed figures, e.g. on the size of the benefit, area, number of children, and more.

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