Table 3 
Persons living below the poverty line (Market Basket Measure, 2018 base), Canada, 2018 to 2022 

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Persons living below the poverty line (Market Basket Measure, 2018 base), Canada, 2018 to 2022
  2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
  thousandsthousandsthousandsthousandsthousands % of population% of population% of population% of population% of population
All persons 4,065 3,793 2,357 2,762 3,772 11.2 10.3 6.4 7.4 9.9
Persons under 18 years1 744 665 333 462 735 10.6 9.4 4.7 6.4 9.9
In two-parent families 459 408 178 248 403 7.8 7.0 3.0 4.2 6.8
In female lone-parent families 226 204 124 142 252 31.0 28.6 16.9 18.4 26.9
Persons 18 to 64 years 2,952 2,760 1,817 1,917 2,607 12.8 11.8 7.8 8.2 11.1
In economic families 1,460 1,355 672 821 1,192 7.7 7.1 3.5 4.3 6.3
Not in an economic family 1,492 1,405 1,145 1,096 1,415 35.6 33.6 27.1 25.8 30.8
Persons 65 years and over 369 369 207 383 430 6.0 5.7 3.1 5.6 6.0
In economic families 118 135 59 115 173 2.7 3.0 1.3 2.4 3.3
Not in an economic family 251 234 148 268 256 13.7 12.0 7.4 13.0 13.8
Source(s):
Table 11-10-0135-01.

Table note 1

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