Poverty in Britain: surprising statistics
Poverty is usually thought of as something that is associated with ‘developing countries’, not a country like Britain. Then again, anybody who has spent any appreciable amount of time in Central London will have seen the large number of homeless, and hence know that at least some poverty does exist in Britain.A recent report has painted grim statistics of child poverty in Britain. And ethnic minorities are the worst affected. The report, titled ‘Narrowing the Gap’, produced by the ‘Fabian Society’, showed that 21% of children in Britain lived below the poverty line. Indian children were worse off than the national average with 33% suffering poverty, while the figure for Pakistanis and Bangladeshis was a startling 61%.
December 14th, 2006 at 7:24 am
About 70 percent of the people in India live with less than One Pound perday, which is the normal definition of poverty and about 50% of the people of India live with less than 50 pence a day, extreme poverty.
Indian definition of poverty is for a person with less than Rs.5000 per year or about 19 pence a day, which is not an absurd definition. nobody can live with 19 pence a day even in India.