Table 2.

Conventionally defined poverty lines and poverty rates: 1986–2016

Survey yeara	Median income	Poverty line	Poverty rate	Poverty line	Poverty rate
	(annual, million JPY)	(0.50 × median income)	(%)	(0.60 × median income)	(%)
1986	2.15	1.08	12.0	1.29	17.9
1989	2.27	1.14	13.2	1.36	19.5
1992	2.70	1.35	13.4	1.62	19.8
1995	2.89	1.44	13.8	1.73	19.9
1998	2.97	1.49	14.6	1.78	20.6
2001	2.72	1.36	15.4	1.63	21.5
2004	2.60	1.30	14.9	1.56	20.8
2007	2.53	1.27	15.7	1.52	21.7
2010	2.49	1.25	16.0	1.50	22.0
2013	2.44	1.22	16.1	1.46	21.9
2016	2.44	1.22	15.6	1.47	21.6

^aIncome data were reported one year prior to survey years