The pie chart shows the percentage of women in poverty and the bar chart shows poverty rates by sex and age. They are from the United States in 2008.

The provided pie

chart

gives data on the

percentage

of

females

in

poverty

,

while

the bar

chart

illustrates the

percentage

of people who lived in

poverty

divided by age and sex. Both statistics are from the USA in 2008. In brief, it is evident that the most significant

percentage

of

women

living in

poverty

is single

females

with no dependent

children

,

while

the number of married

women

with no independent

children

is the lowest. The bar

chart

shows that the highest

percentage

of both men and

women

under the age of 5 live in

poverty

and these two categories are almost equal. It is clearly shown in the pie

chart

that 54% of single

females

with no dependent

children

lived in

poverty

in the USA in 2008.

However

, only 8% of

females

with independent

children

, but who were married, were living in

poverty

in the same year and country. Regarding the bar

chart

, more than 20% of men and

women

under the age of 5 lived in

poverty

.

On the other hand

, only about 5% of men aged 75 and older were in

this

income category,

whereas

women

between 45 and 55 years, the

percentage

of which were living in

poverty

in the USA in 2008, was around 7%.