Children under 5 experience higher poverty rates than other children

U.S. child poverty rates by age group, 2019

Chart: Center for American Progress Source: Authors' calculations are based on the official poverty measure using the 2020 Current Population Survey, Annual Social and Economic Supplement. See Steven Ruggles and others, "Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, 2019 Current Population Survey, Annual Social and Economic Supplement" (Minneapolis: Minnesota Population Center, 2020), available at https://doi.org/10.18128/D010.V10.0.