The Scottish Government has published ‘Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2020-23’, with three year averaged estimates of the proportion of people, children, working-age adults and pensioners in Scotland living in poverty, and other statistics on household income and income inequality.
Key trends include that 24% of children were living in relative poverty after housing costs in 2020-23, and that child poverty is broadly stable following a gradual rise in recent years.
The Scottish Government measures different aspects of poverty with different indicators. The most commonly used poverty indicator in Scotland for showing trends is relative poverty after housing costs. Other poverty measures in this report are absolute poverty, material deprivation, and degrees of household food security. These are included in additional charts throughout the report.
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