In 2025, about 12.9% of all EU households with children were headed by a single adult, according to Eurostat data. That equates to roughly 6.1 million one‑adult families, a share that varies markedly between member states. Estonia recorded the highest proportion of single‑adult households with children at 40.6%, followed by Lithuania at 32.7% and Latvia at 28.5%. The lowest shares were in Slovakia (3.1%), Greece (3.8%) and Slovenia (4.0%). Most of these households had one child (60.1%); 30.9% had two children and 9.0% had three or more. Women headed 81.6% of the households, with men responsible for 18.4%. The figures come from the EU Labour Force Survey and define a child as any household member younger than 18 years.
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