According to the OECD(2006), more than half of single working parents lived in relative povertyin 2000, compared with an OECD average of around 20 percent.
Relative poverty is defined as having income of less than one-half the national median disposable income, which for a household of one parent and one child means a monthly income(including public assistance) of 140,000 yen or less.
In addition, the relative poverty rate is rising and approximately three million children, or one in six, now live below the poverty line. The declining academic performance and other disparities faced by children raised in difficult social environments such as these is a growing problem.
In any given society, relative poverty is defined as a level of income below that required to maintain the minimum acceptable standard of living for that society. Relative poverty is a serious problem even in the OECD countries with the highest per capita gross domestic product, and most governments treat it as such.
According to the latest data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the average child poverty rate among 36 countries including its members stood at 13.3 percent, and the average relative poverty rate was 11.4 percent, both lower than the figures for Japan.
According to statistics in the year 2000, among 25 countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development(OECD), Japan's relative poverty rate(ratio of population with less than half the median household disposable income) ranked second following the United States.
Statistics from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development show that in the mid-2000s Japan's relative poverty rate was fourth highest(15%) among the 30 OECD countries after Mexico(18.5%), Turkey(17.5%), and the United States 17.
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