Proportion of people whose income is below various fractions of median household disposable income, UK/GB
• The proportion of people living in households below 60 per cent of median disposable income in the Great Britain has been stable between 2000/01 and 2003/04, at 17 per cent. (Figure 5.17) Latest information on low income
• Between 2003 and 2004, UK real household disposable income per head rose by 2.1 per cent, compared with growth in GDP per head of 3.1 per cent. (Figure 5.1)
• Although the gap between men’s and women’s incomes is still substantial in Great Britain, it narrowed between 1996/97 and 2003/04. Median net income of women increased by 29 per cent in real terms compared with an increase of 13 per cent for men. (Table 5.4)
• In spring 2005, average gross weekly earnings in the United Kingdom for both men and women with a degree or equivalent were double those of men and women with no qualifications. (Table 5.8)
• A relatively small proportion of deaths in the United Kingdom result in the payment of inheritance tax – only 6 per cent of deaths in 2004/05, or 34,000 estates. (Table 5.11)
• Around three in five men aged between 35 and 54 in the United Kingdom were contributing to a non-state pension in 2003/04, compared with less than half of women of the same age. (Table 5.23) Latest information on pension contributions
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