What percent of the USA is in poverty?

What percent of the USA is in poverty?

The official poverty rate in 2020 was 11.4 percent, up 1.0 percentage point from 10.5 percent in 2019. This is the first increase in poverty after five consecutive annual declines (Figure 8 and Table B-4).

What percentage of the US population was in poverty in 2013?

15.8 percent
In 2013, about 48.8 million people or 15.8 percent of the U.S. population had income below the poverty level. Neither the number nor the rate for 2013 was statistically different from 2012. This is the second consecutive year without a statistically significant change in the poverty rate.

What was the poverty rate in 2017?

Poverty rate by state, 2017

What percent of the US is middle class?

Bookending the income levels of the middle class at 75 percent and 200 percent of the median income (see Table 1), approximately 51 percent of the United States falls in the middle class—strikingly close to the adjusted 2012 Pew survey.

What percentage of children were living in poverty in 2013?

In 2013, approximately 15.6 million, or 22 percent, of all children under the age of 18 were in families living in poverty; this population includes 10.9 million 5- to 17-year-olds and 4.8 million children under age 5 living in poverty.

What percentage of people was poor in 2011 in India?

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