we explore these trends in greater detail below more specifically they are persons who are working and living in households with income below the poverty line they comprise two distinct categories working people living as unrelated nonownfamily individuals with income below the poverty level and working people living in families with total income below the poverty level data series to are preliminary projections however that percentage is still substantially above levels prevalent in odcs where it is expected to shrink from per cent in to per cent by among that group liberia and madagascar experienced no overall change in the share of the working poor living on less than per day during the period