According to the Report Card North-European countries dominate the top half of the table, with child well-being at its highest in the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. Norway has also high, 7th position.
The report provides comprehensive assessment of the lives and well-being of children and young people in 21 nations of the industrialized world. The report represents a significant advance on previous titles in this series which have used income poverty as a proxy measure for overall child well-being in the OECD countries. Specifically, it attempts to measure and compare child well-being under six different headings or dimensions:
material well-being,
health and safety,
education,
peer an family reltionships,
behaviours and risk,
young people subjective well-being
Source: www.unicef.pl , http://www.unicef.pl/RCfinalversion.pdf