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Material deprivation is a measure of living standards. We define a person to be living in material deprivation if he or she is not able to access a certain number of goods and services.

DWP use the Family Resources Survey to publish statistics about children and pensioners in material deprivation in their , broken down for UK countries and regions of England.

Main findings

14% of children living in Wales between 2017-18 and 2019-20 were in material deprivation and low income households. Low income households are those that had a total household income below 70% of the UK average household income, before housing costs were paid. This is up slightly from the 11% reported last year. The corresponding rate is 12% for England, 11% for Scotland and 7% for Northern Ireland. This is a 3 percentage point increase from that reported last year. However, please take care when comparing data over time because trends can be volatile due to small sample sizes for Wales.

7% of pensioners living in Wales between 2017-18 and 2019-20 were in material deprivation (income is not considered for pensioners). This is slightly lower than the 8% reported last year.