however the rate of growth in their incomes fell behind the rises in population incomes in eight countries with the largest fallback observed in chile the fall documented in earlier oecd work between the mid s and the mid s oecd continued between and figure new results from the oecd income distribution database policy brief oecd available at wwwoecdorgelssocoecd inequalityandpouerty ppdf among the elderly however relative income poverty shrunk from to with falls in countries and rises of around percentage points in hirkey canada and poland only