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Over 14,000,000 people, about one in five of the British population were in poverty in 2018, according to the Joseph Rountree Foundation. Of them 8.2 million were working-age adults, 4.1 million were children and 1.9 million were pensioners. Eight million people lived in poverty in families where at least one person was working. [88]
The new extreme poverty line of $2.15 per person per day is based on 2017 PPPs. [7] This means that anyone living on less than $2.15 a day is considered to be living in extreme poverty. About 692 million people globally were in this situation in 2024. [8]
The number of children was 1.04 million, up from 362,000 in 2017. ... The former children’s commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, warned that there must be an “urgent laser-like focus from ...
These reports indicated that in the massive industrial cities, between one-quarter and one-third of the population were living below the poverty line. A 2022 study linked trade shocks during the first globalization (1870–1914) with increased support for a welfare state and reduced support for the Conservative Party.
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The number of children living in poverty also fell in 2020/21, down year on year from 4.3 million to 3.9 million, meaning some 400,000 children were pulled out of poverty.
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