Children
More than one in three Glasgow children is growing up poor
of Glasgow's children in poverty in 2023/24, after housing costs
What this means
More than 1 in 3 children in Glasgow are growing up poor. That is 39,319 children.
Ten years ago it was about 1 in 4. Things are getting worse, not better.
Children living in poverty, after the rent is paid
Share of children aged 0–15 · 2014/15 – 2023/24 · End Child Poverty / Loughborough University
See the numbers behind this chart
| Financial year | Glasgow | Scotland |
|---|---|---|
| 2014/15 | 27.1% | 21.6% |
| 2015/16 | 29.5% | 22.8% |
| 2016/17 | 29.6% | 23.3% |
| 2017/18 | 30.9% | 24.2% |
| 2018/19 | 31.0% | 23.1% |
| 2019/20 | 32.2% | 24.2% |
| 2020/21 | 29.4% | 20.9% |
| 2021/22 | 32.0% | 23.9% |
| 2022/23 | 32.9% | 24.5% |
| 2023/24 | 36.1% | 23.3% |
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The technical detail
These are relative poverty figures after housing costs: children in households with less than 60% of median UK income once rent or mortgage is paid.
The Scotland figure is not published directly in this dataset. It is recomputed here by summing the 32 council-area counts and dividing by the implied child populations. That method reproduces the published Scottish rate of 24.5% for 2022/23, which is how I know it is sound.
Where Glasgow sits
Glasgow's 9.0 percentage point rise is the largest of Scotland's 32 council areas — more than double the next steepest. It also has the highest rate. See every council area ranked.
Where this comes from
- Local child poverty estimates after housing costs, 2015–2024 — End Child Poverty / Loughborough University
Child poverty rates and counts for Glasgow and all 32 Scottish council areas. The Scotland-wide rate is not published in this dataset. I recompute it by summing the 32 council counts and dividing by the implied child populations. The method reproduces the published Scottish rate of 24.5% for 2022/23.
Every number here is checkable
Open the data table above, or download the whole dataset. If you find an error, I will correct it and say so publicly.
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