The pie chart compares the ratio of various types of UK households living in poverty during 2012.
In general, it is obvious that each of the sole parents and single childless accounted for the bulk of the total of all types of low-income households. In addition, in terms of the common proportion of elderly couples and single elderly people was very small compared to other families.
In 2012, the largest proportion of poor families was sole parents, who accounted for 26%, and single childless families, who represented 24%, respectively. Thus, taken together, these two groups included about half of the total number of low-income households in the UK. Meanwhile, as for all poor households in the UK, their number was only 14% of the total, therefore, only these two types of people made up almost 7% of all families in the country.
On the contrary, the proportion of elderly couples, single elderly people and couples without children was a minority, namely, their proportion ranged from about 5% to 9%, while the proportion of couples with children was moderate and amounted to about 15%.