The structure of middle incomes across Europe has come under the spotlight in recent figures published by Eurostat. The proportion of people with incomes at or above 130% of the median has remained remarkably stable over the period 2008-2014/15 (29.5%-30%). The lowest proportion has, however, been in Norway (22.6%) and highest in Estonia (34.7%) and Serbia (34.4%). But most curious changes have been the few countries where the relative number of people experiencing at least modest affluence has been clearly on the rise – such as Denmark (22.6% to 25.8%), Sweden (23.6% to 25.2%) and, to a less extent, Germany (28.6% to 30.4%).