Table 2.2.7 Relative low-income rates* among seniors from late 1970s to the end of the 1990s in eight nations

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Table 2.2.7
Relative low-income rates¹ among seniors from late 1970s to the end of the 1990s in eight nations
	percent
	Late 1970s	Mid-1980s	Mid-1990s	Most recent
Canada	34.7	10.8	4.9	5.4
United States	27.3	23.5	20.6	24.7
United Kingdom	21.6	7.0	15.1	20.9
Germany	17.6	10.3	7.0	11.6
Netherlands	...	0.3	6.4	3.2
Belgium	...	10.9	12.1	11.7
Finland	...	11.9	5.6	8.5
Sweden	13.9	7.2	2.7	7.7
1. A relative measured based on a low-income cut-off defined as one-half of the median family income after tax in each country.
Sources: Luxembourg Income Study (LIS). Cited in Picot and Myles, 2005. Statistics Canada, Survey of Consumer Finances; Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics.