Irish & UK Families Spend A Third Of Their Income On Childcare

The UK and Ireland have some of the highest childcare costs in the developed world.

As Statista’s Anna Fleck details below, according to data from the OECD, the average working couple in Ireland and the UK spends about a third of their income on childminders and nurseries.

That’s around three times as much as parents in Luxembourg, Spain and Norway.

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