The percentage of different age level in poverty in Australia The table illustrates the percentage of poor people in various walks of life living in Australia in 1999 A glance at the table, there are two columns; one decries family type with six items and the summarize household in the bottom line. The other column is the proportion of poor people in each household and value of them On average, all household living in poverty occupy 11 percent of Australia’s population with almost 2 million people. Whereas the consist of single adult and one parent were much higher than average level of all with 19 percent and 21 percent respectively. By contrast, couple people have a standard of living better, specifically, people without children just get 7 percent while people having children was 12 percent. Overall, what stands out to see is that unmarried people and couple without children in poverty group is less than people married.