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Poverty rate in the United States from 1990 to 2024

Characteristic	Share of population
2024	10.6%
2023	11.1%
2022	11.5%
2021	11.6%
2020	11.5%
2019	10.5%
2018	11.8%
2017	12.3%
2016	12.7%
2015	13.5%
2014	14.8%
2013	14.8%
2012	15%
2011	15%
2010	15.1%
2009	14.3%
2008	13.2%
2007	12.5%
2006	12.3%
2005	12.6%
2004	12.7%
2003	12.5%
2002	12.1%
2001	11.7%
2000	11.3%
1999	11.9%
1998	12.7%
1997	13.3%
1996	13.7%
1995	13.8%
1994	14.5%
1993	15.1%
1992	14.8%
1991	14.2%
1990	13.5%

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September 2025

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United States

Survey time period

1990 to 2024

Supplementary notes

For 2004: figures are revised to reflect a correction to the weights in the 2005 ASEC.
For 2000: Consistent with 2001 data through implementation of Census 2000-based population controls and a 28,000 household sample expansion.
For 1999: figures are based on Census 2000 population controls.
For 1992: figures are based on 1990 census population controls.
For 1991: figures are revised to correct for nine omitted weights from the original March 1992 CPS file.

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In 2024, approximately 10.6 percent of the population was living below the national poverty line in the United States. This reflected a 0.5 percentage point decrease from the previous year. Most recently, poverty levels in the country peaked in 2010 at just over 15 percent.

Poverty in the U.S. States

The number of people living in poverty in the U.S. as well as poverty rates, vary greatly from state to state. With their large populations, California and Texas led that charts in terms of the size of their impoverished residents. On the other hand, Louisiana had the highest rates of poverty, standing at 20 percent in 2024. The state with the lowest poverty rate was New Hampshire at 5.9 percent.

Vulnerable populations

�ճ��poverty rate in the United States varies widely across different ethnic groups. American Indians and Alaska Natives are the ethnic group with the highest levels of poverty in 2024, with about 19 percent earning an income below the official threshold. In comparison, only about 7.5 percent of the White (non-Hispanic) and Asian populations were living below the poverty line.

Children are one of the most poverty endangered population groups in the U.S. between 1990 and 2024. Child poverty peaked in 1993 with 22.7 percent of children living in poverty. Despite fluctuations, in 2024, poverty among minors reached its lowest level in decades, falling to 14.3 percent.