Poverty Line 2024 Australia. Children living in single parent households are at the greatest risk of poverty, with one in three single parent families living below a standard (50 per cent) poverty line, and over. Poverty headcount ratio at $5.50 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $5.50 a day at 2011 international prices.

It’s estimated about one in six australian children grow up in poverty but, without an official poverty line, advocates say the government is flying blind on a crucial issue. The henderson poverty line, one of the most commonly used metrics, had the poverty line, as of june 2022, for a single adult at $616 per week.