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California’s economic output has surpassed $4 trillion a year and in doing so slipped past Japan to become, were it a nation, the globe’s fourth largest economy, surpassed only by the United ...

According to the report, the relative poverty rate for disposable income in 2023 is 14.9%, falling from 18.5% in 2011 to 14.8% in 2021, then slightly rising to 14.9% in 2022 and remaining unchanged.

The elderly relative poverty rate for Japan, No. 33 on the GDP per capita list, was 20 percent and Slovenia, No. 31, was 10.7 percent.

The report was based on relative poverty rates, mainly assessing the percentage of children living in households with under 60% of the median income. (Japanese original by Miyuki Fujisawa ...

In particular, more than half of single mothers are relatively poor, which has become a serious social problem in Japan in recent years. In addition, the relative poverty of the elderly is also a ...

What does it mean to live on the poverty line? For the poor in Brazil, one day’s income provides a bunch of bananas. In Japan, you could afford two carrots. And for people in Australia, you could get ...