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Poverty, inequality and living standards
This spreadsheet, originally put together to accompany the briefing note, Inequality and living standards in Great Britain: some facts, shows trends in inequality and poverty over time.

Figures since 1961 are given for:

  • Income before housing costs
  • Income after housing costs
  • Inequality
  • Poverty before housing costs
  • Poverty after housing costs
  • Child poverty before housing costs
  • Child poverty after housing costs
  • Pensioner poverty before housing costs
  • Pensioner poverty after housing costs
  • Poverty for households with a working-age parent before housing costs
  • Poverty for households with a working-age parent after housing costs
  • Poverty for a working-age non-parent before housing costs
  • Poverty for a working-age non-parent after housing costs

And since 1998 for:

  • Child poverty: progress towards the government's 2010 target
Where do you fit in?

By visiting our interactive model, you can find out where you lie in the Great Britain income distribution, and how many people are better or worse off than you.