Table 3 
Persons living below the poverty line1, Canada, 2017 to 2021 

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Persons living below the poverty line, Canada, 2017 to 2021
2017 – Persons living below the poverty line2018 – Persons living below the poverty line2019 – Persons living below the poverty line2020 – Persons living below the poverty line2021 – Persons living below the poverty line2017 – Persons living below the poverty line2018 – Persons living below the poverty line2019 – Persons living below the poverty line2020 – Persons living below the poverty line2021 – Persons living below the poverty line
  thousandsthousandsthousandsthousandsthousands % of population% of population% of population% of population% of population
All persons 4,260 4,065 3,793 2,357 2,762 11.9 11.2 10.3 6.4 7.4
Persons under 18 years2 818 744 665 333 462 11.7 10.6 9.4 4.7 6.4
In two-parent families 502 459 408 178 248 8.8 7.8 7.0 3.0 4.2
In female lone-parent families 242 226 204 124 142 33.1 31.0 28.6 16.9 18.4
Persons 18 to 64 years 3,077 2,952 2,760 1,817 1,917 13.4 12.8 11.8 7.8 8.2
In economic families 1,613 1,460 1,355 672 821 8.6 7.7 7.1 3.5 4.3
Not in an economic family 1,464 1,492 1,405 1,145 1,096 35.3 35.6 33.6 27.1 25.8
Persons 65 years and over 365 369 369 207 383 6.1 6.0 5.7 3.1 5.6
In economic families 136 118 135 59 115 3.3 2.7 3.0 1.3 2.4
Not in an economic family 228 251 234 148 268 13.0 13.7 12.0 7.4 13.0
Source(s):
Table 11-10-0135-01.

Table note 1

Based on the Market Basket Measure (2018 base).

Table note 2

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