UK citizens are among the the least likely in the EU to be trapped in poverty according to ONS statistics released yesterday. Around 6.5 percent of the UK population is in persistent poverty, compared to an EU average of 10.4 percent.
The report uses the EU’s definition of poverty as an equivalised disposable income of less than 60 percent of the national median. Persistent poverty is where people fall below that measure in the current year and at least 2 of the preceding 3 years.
The figures show that, while the percentage of people in overall poverty in the UK broadly tracks that of the rest of the EU, the persistent poverty rate is lower and has been falling since the recession.
Persistent and overall poverty rates, UK and EU average, 2008 to 2014, percentage total population
The reason for this is that, while the UK has relatively high rate of entry into…
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