Climate, history & governance · OWID
Single-parent households
Share of households comprised of a single parent and their children (biological, step, adopted, or fostered) and no one else — 176 countries, but sparse survey years back to 1960.
- Indicator ID
- owid:single-parent-households
- Unit
- % of households
- Source family
- OWID
Source citation: United Nations (2022) — processed by Our World in Data
Compare Single-parent households across countries · Rank countries by Single-parent households.