Summary of the reading of the scoreboard of key employment and social indicators Gross Youth Unemployment Disposable At-risk-of- Inequality unemployment NEET rate rate Household poverty rate S20/S80 rate Income Belgium Denmark Denmark Czech Republic Czech Republic Best Netherlands Germany Germany Latvia Slovakia Finland performers Sweden Austria Finland Netherlands Germany Slovenia Estonia Czech Republic Denmark Hungary Estonia Austria Netherlands Latvia Austria Denmark United Czech Republic Czech Republic Denmark France Kingdom Ireland Lithuania Hungary Malta Better than Hungary Luxembourg Netherlands Slovenia Lithuania Cyprus average Luxembourg Malta United Hungary Slovakia France Malta Romania Kingdom Portugal Belgium Sweden Bulgaria Slovakia Slovenia Slovakia Ireland Malta Lithuania Poland Slovakia Good but Austria Austria Netherlands to monitor Luxembourg Austria Belgium Croatia Czech Republic Poland Denmark Croatia Latvia Slovenia Estonia Germany United Belgium Finland Hungary Italy Kingdom Lithuania France Lithuania Croatia Latvia Belgium On average Hungary Germany Luxembourg Ireland Slovenia France Sweden Italy Poland Poland Sweden Poland Romania Netherlands Sweden Slovakia Bulgaria Portugal United Luxembourg Slovenia Kingdom Spain Sweden United Kingdom Bulgaria Weak but Portugal Portugal Cyprus improving Spain Spain Bulgaria Cyprus Estonia Estonia Germany Belgium Cyprus Finland Ireland Italy To watch Finland Finland Ireland Italy Lithuania France France Malta Latvia United Portugal Kingdom Bulgaria Estonia Croatia Croatia Croatia Greece Greece Critical Greece Greece Cyprus Cyprus Romania Latvia situations Italy Italy Greece Spain Portugal Spain Romania Romania Spain Note: This table provides an overview of the key employment and social indicators scoreboard according to a methodology jointly agreed between the Commission and Member States. For details regarding the methodology, please see Annex 4 of the Joint Employment Report 2016. In the case of Malta, the margin of error when calculating the NEET rate is likely to be higher than other EU Member States due to small sample size. .