Coverage: United Kingdom
Source: Institute of Fiscal Studies
- There has been a steady rise in the proportion of people earning less than average income since the late 1970s. By 2001 about 65 per cent of people fell into this category.
- The proportion of people with low incomes (those with less than 40 - 60 per cent of average income) increased markedly during the latter half of the 1980s but has remained roughly constant since 1990. In 2001, 29 per cent of people earned less than 60 per cent of average income, 19 per cent earned less than half of average income, and 9 per cent earned less than 40 per cent of average income.