Maritime Child Poverty Statistics
as of September 2024
In Prince Edward Island: 15% of children live in poverty
Source: Page 2 PEI-Child-and-Family-Report-Card-Feb12-2024.pdf (campaign2000.ca)
In New Brunswick: 18.7% of children live in poverty.
Source: Page 3 New Brunswick’s 2023 Child & Family Poverty Report Card by sjhdc – Issuu
Related Info: The latest report on child poverty rates in Saint John shows that 27.3 per cent of kids in the city were living in poverty in 2021 — an increase of 2.1 percentage points from the previous year.
Source: More than a quarter of the children in Saint John live in poverty, study finds | CBC News
In Nova Scotia: 20.5% of children live in poverty.
Related Info: When comparing communities using census divisions, the child poverty rates are highest in Queens (28.5%), Cape Breton (27.6%), Cumberland (26.1%), and Annapolis (26%). Richmond (Cape Breton) saw the highest increase in child poverty from 2020 levels by 22%, and Antigonish saw the second highest at 20%.
Source: Page 5 2023 report card on child and family poverty in Nova Scotia: Families deserve action, not excuses (policyalternatives.ca)
