A r c h i v e d  I n f o r m a t i o n

Indicator 19. Poverty

Number and percent of children under 18 years old living in poverty, by family status and race/ethnicity of family householder: 1960 to 1991

________________________________________________________________________           |                       |Families with female   |           |     All families      |head, no husband       | Percent of           |                       | present1/             | all poverty    Year   |_______________________|_______________________|  children           |   Number   |Percent of|   Number   |Percent of| in families           |of children | children |of children | children | with female           |  under 18  | under 18 |  under 18  | under 18 |    head,           |in poverty, |in poverty|in poverty, |in poverty| no husband           |in thousands|          |in thousands|          |   present __________|____________|__________|____________|__________|_____________                                            All races  1960 .....      17,288       26.5        4,095       68.4          23.7 1965 .....      14,388       20.7        4,562       64.2          31.7 1970 .....      10,235       14.9        4,689       53.0          45.8 1975 .....      10,882       16.8        5,597       52.7          51.4 1980 .....      11,114       17.9        5,866       50.8          52.8 1985 .....      12,483       20.1        6,716       53.6          53.8 1989 .....      12,001       19.0        6,808       51.1          56.7 1990 .....      12,715       19.9        7,363       53.4          57.9 1991 ......     13,658       21.1        8,065       55.5          59.0                                             White2/  1960 .....      11,229       20.0        2,357       59.9          21.0 1965 .....       8,595       14.4        2,321       52.9          27.0 1970 .....       6,138       10.5        2,247       43.1          36.6 1975 .....       6,748       12.5        2,813       44.2          41.7 1980 .....       6,817       13.4        2,813       41.6          41.3 1985 .....       7,838       15.6        3,372       45.2          43.0 1989 .....       7,164       14.1        3,320       42.8          46.3 1990 .....       7,696       15.1        3,597       45.9          46.7 1991 ......      8,316       16.1        3,941       47.1          47.4                                             Black2/  1959 .....       5,022       65.5        1,475       81.6          29.4 1967 .....       4,558       47.4        2,265       72.4          49.7 1970 .....       3,922       41.5        2,383       67.7          60.8 1975 .....       3,884       41.4        2,724       66.0          70.1 1980 .....       3,906       42.1        2,944       64.8          75.4 1985 .....       4,057       43.1        3,181       66.9          78.4 1989 .....       4,257       43.2        3,256       62.9          76.5 1990 .....       4,412       44.2        3,543       64.7          80.3 1991 .....       4,637       45.6        3,853       68.2          83.1                                            Hispanic3/  1973 .....       1,364       27.8          606       68.7          44.4 1975 .....       1,619       33.1          694       68.4          42.9 1980 .....       1,718       33.0          809       65.0          47.1 1985 .....       2,512       39.6        1,247       72.4          49.6 1989 .....       2,496       35.5        1,163       65.0          46.6 1990 .....       2,750       37.7        1,314       68.4          47.8 1991 ......      2,977       39.8        1,398       68.6          47.0 ________________________________________________________________________ 

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports, Series P-20, Characteristics of the Population Below the Poverty Level, various years; Series P-60, Money Income and Poverty Status of Families and Persons in the United States, various years; and Series P-60, Poverty in the United States, 1991, no. 181.