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===Households===
Among all households in [[OECD]] countries in 2011, the proportion of single-parent households was in 3-11% the range, with an average of 7.5%. It was highest in Australia (10%), Canada (10%), Mexico (10%), United States (10%), Lithuania (10%), Costa Rica (11%), Latvia (11%) and New Zealand (11%), while it was lowest in Japan (3%), Greece (4%), Switzerland (4%), Bulgaria (5%), Croatia (5%), Germany (5%), Italy (5%) and Cyprus (5%). The proportion was 9% in both Ireland and the United Kingdom.<ref name=OECD>[[OECD]] Family Database, [http://www.oecd.org/els/family/SF_1_1_Family_size_and_composition.pdf SF1.1:Family size and household composition], OECD -Social Policy Division -Directorate of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, June 12, 2016.</ref>

Among households with children in 2005/09, the proportion of single-parent households was 10% in Japan, 16% in the Netherlands, 19% in Sweden, 20% in France, 22% in Denmark, 22% in Germany, 23% in Ireland, 25% in Canada, 25% in the United Kingdom, and 30% in the United States. The U.S. proportion increased from 20% in 1980 to 30% in 2008.<ref>{{cite web|title=Table 1337. Single-Parent Households: 1980 to 2009|url=https://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s1337.pdf|website=www.census.gov|publisher=US Census Bureau, Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2012|access-date=4 November 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150218163521/http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s1337.pdf|archive-date=18 February 2015}}</ref>

In all OECD countries, most single-parent households were headed by a mother. The proportion headed by a father varied between 9% and 25%. It was lowest in Estonia (9%), Costa Rica (10%), Cyprus (10%), Japan (10%), Ireland (10%) and the United Kingdom (12%), while it was highest in Norway (22%), Spain (23%), Sweden (24%), Romania (25%) and the United States (25%). These numbers were not provided for Canada, Australia or New Zealand.<ref name=OECD/>