Should the poverty line also vary with average income? These questions hark back to an old debate—whether poverty is absolute or relative. An absolute poverty line is intended to represent constant ...

If your income is 40% below this, after adjusting for rising prices since then, you are classed as living in absolute poverty. Relative poverty is the number of people whose income is 40% below ...

Our understanding of poverty is usually based on two measures – absolute and relative poverty. ‘Relative’ counts anybody earning below 60% of the median wage. It is a measure of people who have fallen ...

were living in absolute poverty last year. This was also stable with respect to 2022 as was the figure for the proportion of families in relative poverty - 10.6%. (ANSA).