Did You Know? - Income

Did you know? According to the Market Basket Measure, Canada's Official Poverty Line, 9.9% of the population—approximately 3.8 million Canadians—lived below the poverty line in 2022, up from 7.4% in 2021. This marks the second consecutive annual increase and brings the poverty rate close to the pre-pandemic level of 10.3% in 2019.
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Did you know? According to the Market Basket Measure, Canada's Official Poverty Line, 9.9% of the population—approximately 3.8 million Canadians—lived below the poverty line in 2022, up from 7.4% in 2021. This marks the second consecutive annual increase and brings the poverty rate close to the pre-pandemic level of 10.3% in 2019.

Poverty rate, Canada, 2015 to 2021
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Data table for chart 20
Table summary
This table displays the results of Data table for chart 20 Persons in low income, calculated using percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
  Percentage of persons in poverty
2015 14.5
2016 12.9
2017 11.9
2018 11.2
2019 10.3
2020 6.4
2021 7.4
Source: Statistics Canada. Table 11-10-0136-01.
 

 

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