Poverty in Australia

Poverty in Australia refers to the incidence and measurement of relative poverty within Australia. Relative income poverty is typically measured as the percentage of the population earning less than the median wage of the working population.

In 2023, the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) released a report stating that relative poverty was increasing in Australia. It estimated that as of 2019-2020, 3.3 million people, or 13.4% of the population, were living below the internationally accepted relative poverty threshold of 50% of a country's median income. The report also estimated that 761,000 children (16.6%) under the age of 15 were living in relative poverty.