evidence: Poverty in Northern Ireland 2022 This report explores the rates of poverty of Northern Ireland and assesses the impact that poverty is having on the lives of people who live there. It also looks at how Northern Ireland’s rates of relative poverty compare with those elsewhere in the UK. As Northern Ireland entered the pandemic, nearly one-in-five people in Northern Ireland lived in poverty, including over 100,000 children. With 1 in 14 households in food insecurity, the recent spike in energy prices, and wider inflation, as well as certain areas of Northern Ireland and groups such as people in workless families, disabled people, carers and people in ethnic minority households having much higher poverty rates, people across Northern Ireland need the next Executive to go further and focus on: