
Revised estimates by the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that relative child poverty in the UK is set to increase by six percentage points between 2010/11 and 2020/21, from 17.5 per cent to 23.5 per cent.
This will mean that by 2020, around 3.5 million children will be classed as living in poverty, reversing the reductions made in the previous decade.
Under the relative poverty measure, a child is classed as living in poverty if they are in a household with an income of less than 60 per cent of average wages.
The report, which was put together for the Northern Ireland executive, predicts that relative poverty in Northern Ireland will rise at an even faster rate, from 21.4 per cent in 2010/11 to 29.7 per cent in 2020/21.
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