The EU countries with the highest shares of young people who perceived themselves to be in good or very good health were Romania (98.0%), Greece (97.4%), and Bulgaria (97.1%).
The lowest shares were recorded in Denmark (71.1%), Sweden (75.3%), and Finland (82.3%).
Latvia ranks somewhere in the middle on a combined 89% with 17.1% saying they are in very good health and 71.9% saying they are in good health. Estonia recorded a figure of 87.6% and Lithuania 86%. The largest differences between the self-perceived health of young people and the total population were recorded in Latvia (a difference of 38.8 percentage points (pp)) and Lithuania (37.4 pp difference).
