Poverty Level 2024 Percentage Usa. This means the annual poverty level for a family of three has increased to $25,820 up from $24,860 in 2023. The global extreme poverty has been revised slightly by 0.1 percentage points to 8.9% from 2019, taking the poor people count from 701 million to 689 million in 2024.

Census bureau’s 2022 current population report, 37.9 million americans are considered impoverished. The national poverty rate in 2017 was 13.4% after falling for the fifth year in a row and was 12.3% in 2019.