Kids in Denmark grow up with the lowest inequality among the world’s wealthy nations, according to a new Unicef report. Norway came out near the top of a new Unicef report on childhood inequality, in which children themselves rated their own health and life satisfcation.

The report, ‘Fairness for Children’, compared 41 EU and OECD countries on the income, education, health and life satisfaction gaps between children at the bottom of society and those in the middle.

The comparison found that Denmark had the lowest overall inequality among children, topping a three-way tie at second place between Norway, Finland and Switzerland.

In the report, children between the ages of 11 and 15 were asked to assess their own life satisfaction on a scale of one to ten, where a score of four or less was seen as ‘bad’. In Norway, only 4.5 percent characterized their lives as ‘bad’, bested only by the Netherlands where just 4.4 percent were unsatisfied with their lives.

The majority of children in the study, which examined 41 EU and OECD nations, ranked their life satisfaction as an eight on the scale.

Norway was the absolute best country for income equality, with just a 37 percent income gap. Put another way, the household income of a child at the tenth percentile is just 37 percent lower than that of a child in the middle of the income distribution.

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