"Figure 5: Poverty and persistent poverty rates, 2008 to 2015, UK and EU average","" "","" "","" "Notes","" "Unit","Percentage population" "","" "","Overall poverty UK","Overall poverty EU average","Persistent poverty UK","Persistent poverty EU average" "2008","18.7","16.6","8.5","8.7" "2009","17.3","16.4","8.0","9.2" "2010","17.1","16.4","7.4","10.0" "2011","16.2","16.8","6.9","9.8" "2012","16.0","16.8","8.6","10.3" "2013","15.9","16.7","7.8","10.0" "2014","16.8","17.2","6.5","10.3" "2015","16.7","17.3","7.3","10.9"