U.S. number of people living below the poverty line 1990-2022, by gender

Published by Statista Research Department, Nov 3, 2023
In 2022, about 20.82 million women and 17.1 million men were living below the poverty line in the United States. The number of women living below the poverty line has always exceeded the number of men. Poverty numbers peaked in 2014, and declined until the year of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

Number of people living below the poverty line in the United States from 1990 to 2022, by gender (in millions)

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September 2023

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United States

Survey time period

1990 to 2022

Supplementary notes

The U.S. Census Bureau uses a set of dollar value thresholds that vary by family size and composition to determine who is in poverty. A person under 65 living alone is considered poor, if the annual income is less than 11,945 U.S. dollars. This threshold is calculated for 2012.

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