UK Poverty 2024

Between 2019/20 and 2021/22, the average poverty rates in England (22%), Wales (22%) and Scotland (21%) had converged to around the same level, although poverty rates were much lower in Northern Ireland (16%).

Between 2019/20 and 2021/22, the West Midlands had the highest rate of poverty at 27%, followed by the North East and London (both 25%), Yorkshire and The Humber, the East Midlands and the North West (all 23%)

More than 1 in 5 people in the UK (22%) were in poverty in 2021/22 – 14.4 million people. This included:

• 8.1 million (or around 2 in 10) working-age adults
• 4.2 million (or nearly 3 in 10) children
• 2.1 million (or around 1 in 6) pensioners.

Source: Joseph Rowntree Foundation

 

 

 

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