Relative poverty rates: Entire population

QoG code: oecd_incompoverty_t1a

Ratio of the number of people whose income falls below the poverty line, taken as half the median household income of the total population

Type of variable
Continuous
Downloaded by QoG on
2024-12-17
Last updated by source
2024-12-17
Details of this variable in our compilation datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard time-series 42
Dataset Available for years
Standard time-series 2004-2017

Country coverage

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  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Brazil
  • Canada
  • Chile
  • China
  • Costa Rica
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Estonia
  • Finland
  • France (1963-)
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • India
  • Ireland
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Korea, South
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Mexico
  • Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Norway
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Russia
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • South Africa
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Turkey
  • United Kingdom
  • United States

Year coverage

This variable has information from 2003 to 2017.