Here we explain the facts and figures, and what the experts say needs to be done to tackle UK poverty for good. How many people are living in poverty in the UK? Around 14.4 million people were living ...

Child poverty reached almost 4.5 million in 2024, the highest level for more than 20 years in the United Kingdom, according to PA Media reports. The number of children living in poverty in the UK ...

Poverty and social hardship in the UK. With Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at US $2.94 trillion (2014), the UK has the fifth largest economy in the world after Germany and Japan.

Meanwhile, the DWP data showed the total number of people in the UK estimated to be living in poverty was down slightly, to 14.25 million in 2023/24, from 14.32 million in the previous 12 months.

THAT 14 million people in the UK, including more than four million children, are living in poverty is a “wearily familiar” statistic that masks human suffering, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s (JRF’s ...

Scotland has seen a 12 per cent drop in child poverty since introducing reduction targets into law in 2017, according to new research. There has been a reduction of 21,000 children living in relative ...

At least one in four children are living in poverty after housing costs across a third of Scotland’s Westminster constituencies, new figures show. Analysis from Loughborough University reveals that ...

The number of children living in poverty in the UK has reached a record high of almost 4.5 million, in statistics branded “a source of national shame”.

Scotland has seen a 12% drop in child poverty since introducing reduction targets into law in 2017, according to new research. There has been a reduction of 21,000 children living in relative poverty, ...