Households pushed below or further below a relative poverty line in United Kingdom
United Kingdom: Households pushed below or further below a relative poverty line was 0.7% in 2019. β² Rising
Households pushed below or further below a relative poverty line in United Kingdom, 2008β2019
Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory.
Analysis
United Kingdom recorded 0.7% for households pushed below or further below a relative poverty line in 2019.
The figure is up 12.5% on the previous year and up 2.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, households pushed below or further below a relative poverty line in United Kingdom peaked at 0.9% in 2016 and was at its lowest, 0.5%, in 2008.
United Kingdom ranks 25th of 26 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 12 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 0.6% | 0.5% | 0.7% | 2 |
| 2010s | 0.7% | 0.6% | 0.9% | 10 |
Countries ranked near United Kingdom
More poverty & inequality data for United Kingdom
- Data deprivation poverty surveys per decade 6 (2025)
- Fertility rate vs the share living in extreme poverty 1.56 (2023)
- Cereal yield vs extreme poverty 7,138 (2023)
- Tax revenues vs income inequality 34.91 (2023)
- Gender inequality index from the human development report 0.083 (2023)
- Share of government consumption in gdp vs share in extreme poverty 21.15 (2023)
- Gini coefficient of lifespan inequality in females 0.0826 (2023)
- Gini coefficient of lifespan inequality by sex 0.0826 (2023)
- Gini coefficient of lifespan inequality in males 0.0966 (2023)
- Income inequality atkinson index undp 0.167 (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is households pushed below or further below a relative poverty line in United Kingdom?
- Households pushed below or further below a relative poverty line in United Kingdom was 0.7% in 2019, according to World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory.
- What is the highest households pushed below or further below a relative poverty line recorded in United Kingdom?
- The highest recorded value was 0.9% in 2016.
- What is the lowest households pushed below or further below a relative poverty line recorded in United Kingdom?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.5% in 2008.
- How does United Kingdom rank for households pushed below or further below a relative poverty line?
- United Kingdom ranks 25th out of 26 countries with data for 2019.
- Is households pushed below or further below a relative poverty line rising or falling in United Kingdom?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this United Kingdom data come from?
- The figures come from World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory, published as part of Households pushed below or further below a relative poverty line (reflecting basic needs: food, housing, utilities - developed by WHO/Europe) by out-of-pocket payments (%, national). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
Download this data
CSV Β· JSON β 12 observations, free to reuse under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (WHO).