Sentence examples for poverty proportion from inspiring English sources

Economic poverty in each group is determined by analysis of income distribution in the groups and mean testing comparing the incidence of poverty (proportion of poor in the group or Head Count Index) and the depth of the poverty (mean poverty of the poor measured by the average gap between the income of the poor and the poverty threshold).

Higher tobacco outlet density was associated with larger proportions of families with incomes below the poverty level, proportion of the population that was Black and Hispanic (table 2).

Under the Child Poverty Act 2010, passed by Labour just before it left office, the government is committed to getting relative child poverty (the proportion of children living in households on below 60% median income) below 10% by 2020 and absolute child poverty (the proportion living in households below what 60% of median income was in 2010-11, uprated for inflation) below 5%.

He agrees with Messrs Kharas and Rogerson that, as middle-income countries take more people out of poverty, the proportion of poor people who live in poor countries must rise.

A country's MPI is the product of both the breadth of poverty (the proportion of people whose score is over 33%) and its depth (the average score of the poor).This broader brush paints a different picture of hardship than narrower measures based only on income or consumption.

Census estimates from 2005-2009 indicathathat San Carlos and Alton populations were roughly 96-97%% Hispanic/Latino ethnicity, 34-37% foreign-born, with 32-35% families below poverty; the proportion of families in poverty was more than three times the national estimate [ 38, 39].

And she, too, talks of the deprivation and poverty, the high proportion of council houses, the food bank, and – of course, the community.

The ONS noted previously released figures showing that the UK's overall poverty rate – the proportion of the population at risk of poverty in the current year – was 16.8% in 2014, the 12th highest in the EU.

When I was in college, a majority of the world's people lived in extreme poverty, and the proportion will have dropped to virtually zero by the time I retire.

Or that at this time when the rich grind their heels in the faces of the poor there has actually been a dramatic fall in world poverty, with the proportion of the world's population living on less than $2 a day halving in the past 20 years?

In April a report by the Carnegie UK Trust said a "perfect storm" of spending cuts and an aging population was "likely to be more intense" in Wales because of its higher level of poverty and greater proportion of over-65s.