UK absolute poverty rate by demographic 2023

In 2022/23, 25 percent of children in the United Kingdom were defined as living in absolute poverty, compared with 17.1 percent of working-age adults, and 12.1 percent of pensioners.

Percentage of individuals in absolute low income after housing costs in the United Kingdom from 1994/95 to 2022/23, by demographic

Characteristic	Children	Working-age adults	Pensioners	Families where someone is disabled*
1994/95	51.2%	32.8%	52.8%	-
1995/96	50.8%	32.8%	51.9%	51.4%
1996/97	47.9%	30.5%	47.7%	48.5%
1997/98	46%	28.4%	45.1%	45.9%
1998/99	44.9%	27.3%	43.1%	44.4%
1999/00	42%	25.8%	39.2%	41.8%
2000/01	38.1%	23.8%	35%	37.7%
2001/02	34.7%	21%	31.4%	34.5%
2002/03	31.4%	20.5%	28.8%	30.3%
2003/04	29.9%	20.1%	23.6%	27.8%
2004/05	29.4%	19.3%	19%	26.9%
2005/06	30.3%	20.6%	17.6%	25.8%
2006/07	30.6%	20.3%	18.7%	26.7%
2007/08	30.8%	20.4%	17%	27%
2008/09	29.9%	21.1%	15.3%	24.9%
2009/10	28.2%	21.1%	14.4%	24%
2010/11	27.2%	21.2%	14%	23.9%
2011/12	28.3%	21.7%	14.4%	24.5%
2012/13	28.8%	22.2%	14.2%	26.1%
2013/14	28.3%	21.4%	14.5%	27.3%
2014/15	27.1%	20%	12.8%	24.2%
2015/16	26.8%	19.4%	13.6%	23.9%
2016/17	25.4%	19%	12.9%	22.2%
2017/18	26.3%	18.4%	13.6%	23.1%
2018/19	26%	19.1%	13.5%	22.9%
2019/20	24.8%	16.9%	12.8%	22.1%
2020/21	22.9%	16.4%	10.8%	-
2021/22	22.8%	16.5%	12.4%	20.7%
2022/23	25%	17.1%	12.1%	19.8%

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Release date

March 2024

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United Kingdom

Survey time period

April 1, 1994 to March 31, 2023

Supplementary notes

Absolute low income is defined as living in households with income below 60% of the median in 2010/11 and adjusted for inflation.

Data prior to 2002/03 is for Great Britain only

**The source adds the following information regarding this type of data: 'Analysis for FYE 2021 is not available. This is a consequence of the decision not to publish additional breakdowns of the headline measures in this statistical release, in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic data quality issues.'
This statistic using original data from the Department for Work and Pensions and includes copyright material licensed under © Crown, the Open Government License v3.0

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