Real household disposable income and gross domestic product per head, UK
• Between 2004 and 2005, UK household disposable income grew by 1.4 per cent in real terms, while Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per head grew by 1.2 per cent. (Figure 5.1) Latest information on GDP growth
• In 2004/05 benefits, including the state retirement pension, accounted for just over one-half of the gross income of pensioner families in the UK, but personal pensions were the fastest growing source of pensioner income between 1994/95 and 2004/05. (Figure 5.4)
• In 2004/05, people in single and couple households in the UK where all members were in full-time work were nearly twice as likely as the population as a whole to be in the top fifth of the disposable income distribution. (Table 5.12)
• In 2004/05, 86 per cent of children in Pakistani/Bangladeshi households in the UK were in the bottom 40 per cent of households ranked by disposable income compared with 49 per cent of all children. (Table 5.13)
• The proportion of single people with children experiencing persistent low income in Great Britain has fallen from 40 per cent in 1991–1994 to 21 per cent for the period 2001–2004. (Table 5.18)
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