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Poverty within the UK is particularly concentrated in Wales. While the relative income-poverty rate for the UK stood at 16.8% in 2014, the same poverty rate for Wales stood at 23% in the same year. [95] [96] Poverty in Wales has remained in the 25% range, with only small dips throughout the last decade. [96]
The UK was the top recipient of South African exports in 2001 and 2002 but dropped to fourth-largest by 2008. Exports from South Africa to the UK are dominated by precious stones, mineral products, vehicles (including vessels), machinery and mechanical products, fruit and vegetables, base metals and articles, prepared foodstuffs and beverages.
When the premier of the economic hub province of Gauteng announced last month that he was offering jobs for 6,000 unemployed young people, more than 40,000 waited in the winter cold to apply. More ...
According to World Bank, "Poverty headcount ratio at a defined value a day is the percentage of the population living on less than that value a day at 2017 purchasing power adjusted prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions."
Research for Marie Curie said an estimated 128,000 people died in fuel poverty in 2022, ... More than 111,000 people are estimated to have died in poverty last year across the UK, up from 93,000 ...
Lebogang Isaac Maile, the head of the Human Settlements department for Gauteng province, said 23 hijacked buildings had been identified in Johannesburg as in need of development. About 100 ...
The UK government began collecting data related to hunger in the UK in 2019, with the first public reporting of this data due in March 2021. [7] The 2020 UK COVID-19 outbreak and its associated lockdown had a "devastating impact" on people's ability to get needed food, with an April 2020 report finding as many as 1.5 million British people had ...
The UK is unlike much of Europe in having high overall population density, but low urban population density outside of London. [17] In London, many former slum neighbourhoods like in Islington became "highly prized", [ 17 ] however this was the exception to the rule, and much of the north of England remains deprived.