the light blue indicates the countries with a lower poverty rate in the individual category the midblue denotes the average performers while the dark blue marks the countries with the highest levels of poverty overall the country composition of the groups is quite stable as expected but with some exceptions thus denmark finland iceland ireland the netherlands and norway are among the best performers as might be expected for the total child poverty rate in the first column and also for the individual risk categories while bulgaria latvia lithuania and usa are stable in the group of the worst performing countries on relative poverty