Break in the series for Austria ai UK in 2012. Across 31 countries, there was a significant negative relationship between economic growth and the change in the share of poor children. Absolute increases in child poverty over 2008-2012 were larger in countries experiencing greater falls in the real GDP per capita during the same income reference period.15 Child poverty changes were also significantly related to the growth in the working-age (25-64) unemployment rate16 (Figure 2).