Proportion of people whose income is below various fractions of median income, UK/GB
• Between 2002 and 2003, UK real household disposable income per head rose by 1.8 per cent, compared with growth in GDP per head of 2.0 per cent. (Figure 5.1)
• The pre-tax income of pensioners in Great Britain rose by 26 per cent in real terms between 1994/95 and 2002/03, compared with an increase of 13 per cent in real average earnings. (Figure 5.4)
• In 2002/03, the 30 per cent of individuals at the top of the income distribution in Great Britain received over half of total disposable income. (Figure 5.14)
• Throughout the period 1984 to 2003, more than three-quarters of adults in Great Britain considered that the gap between those with high incomes and those with low incomes was too large. (Table 5.15)
• The proportion of people living in households with income less than 60 per cent of contemporary median disposable income reached a peak of 21 per cent in 1992, since when it has fallen to 17 per cent in 2000/01 to 2002/03. (Figure 5.19) Latest information on low income
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