Oxfam report says median monthly income of Hong Kong's poorest 10% of households is only HK$1,600, with the wealth gap at 81.9 times
An Oxfam report from October 2024 (using data from the first quarter of 2024) shows that the median monthly income of Hong Kong's poorest 10% of households was HK$1,600, down 54% from HK$3,500 in 2019, while the richest 10% earned 101,000; the gap between rich and poor widened from 34.3 times to 81.9 times, the poverty rate was 2.2%, and about 1.39 million people lived below the poverty line. The government's poverty report has not been updated since 2021.