Poverty line (HK$)
2019
2020
Household size
1-person
4,500
4,400
2-person
10,000
9,500
3-person
16,600
16,000
4-person
21,400
20,800
5-person
22,100
20,000
6-person+
23,000
21,900
Poverty rate (%)
Pre-intervention (purely theoretical assumption)
21.4
23.6
Post-intervention (all selected measures)
9.2
7.9
Post-intervention (recurrent cash)
15.8
17.3
Post-intervention (recurrent + non-recurrent cash)
13.1
10.2
Post-intervention (recurrent cash + in-kind)
11.2
13.0
Poor population ('000)
1 490.7
1 652.5
641.5
553.5
1 097.8
1 210.9
910.3
715.6
777.7
908.1
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Study on Impact of Taxation and Social Benefits on Household Income (Labour and Welfare Bureau)