Table 2 
Persons living below the poverty line (market basket measure), 2014 to 2018 

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Persons living below the poverty line (market basket measure), 2014 to 2018
  2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
  thousandsthousandsthousandsthousandsthousands % of population% of population% of population% of population% of population
All persons  3,910 4,238 3,739 3,413 3,173 11.3 12.1 10.6 9.5 8.7
Persons under 18 years1 836 900 755 622 566 12.4 13.3 11.0 9.0 8.2
   In two-parent families 467 585 429 386 335 8.3 10.3 7.6 6.8 5.8
   In female lone-parent families 292 252 288 185 191 41.9 36.4 37.3 27.1 26.2
Persons 18 to 64 years 2,831 3,049 2,701 2,553 2,392 12.6 13.4 11.9 11.1 10.3
   In economic families 1,522 1,622 1,342 1,307 1,125 8.2 8.7 7.2 6.9 5.9
   Not in an economic family 1,309 1,427 1,359 1,246 1,267 33.0 35.8 33.8 31.3 31.5
Persons 65 years and over 242 289 284 238 216 4.5 5.1 4.9 3.9 3.5
   In economic families 92 96 111 97 78 2.3 2.3 2.6 2.2 1.7
   Not in an economic family 151 193 172 141 137 10.3 12.7 11.0 8.4 7.9
Source(s):
Table 11-10-0135-01 (formerly CANSIM 206-0041).

Table note 1

Data do not add up to the total, as some components have been excluded.
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