Table 3 
Persons living below the poverty line (Market Basket Measure, 2018 base), Canada1, 2019 to 2023 

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Persons living below the poverty line (Market Basket Measure, 2018 base), Canada, 2019 to 2023
  2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
  thousandsthousandsthousandsthousandsthousands % of population% of population% of population% of population% of population
All persons 3,793 2,357 2,762 3,772 3,971 10.3 6.4 7.4 9.9 10.2
Persons under 18 years2 665 333 462 735 802 9.4 4.7 6.4 9.9 10.7
In two-parent families 408 178 248 403 451 7.0 3.0 4.2 6.8 7.5
In female lone-parent families 204 124 142 252 281 28.6 16.9 18.4 26.9 29.3
Persons 18 to 64 years 2,760 1,817 1,917 2,607 2,795 11.8 7.8 8.2 11.1 11.6
In economic families 1,355 672 821 1,192 1,307 7.1 3.5 4.3 6.3 6.7
Not in an economic family 1,405 1,145 1,096 1,415 1,488 33.6 27.1 25.8 30.8 31.3
Persons 65 years and over 369 207 383 430 373 5.7 3.1 5.6 6.0 5.0
In economic families 135 59 115 173 151 3.0 1.3 2.4 3.3 2.7
Not in an economic family 234 148 268 256 222 12.0 7.4 13.0 13.8 11.5
Source(s):
Table 11-10-0135-01.

Table note 1

Estimates at the Canada level do not include the territories.

Table note 2

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