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What percentage of Americans aged 18 to 64 live below the poverty line?
11.5% of Americans aged 18 to 64 live below the poverty line — about 12 in every 100, or 1 in 10. That is the figure published by the American Community Survey for 2023.
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Where this number comes from
- Survey
- American Community Survey
- What it measured
- American Community Survey 1-year estimate, published under the label “PERCENTAGE OF FAMILIES AND PEOPLE WHOSE INCOME IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS IS BELOW THE POVERTY LEVEL → All people → 18 years and over → 18 to 64 years”.
- Population
- Americans aged 18 to 64
- Year
- 2023
- 90% confidence interval
- 11.4% to 11.6%
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