This graph shows the poverty rate amongst children, after housing costs have been deducted, as a percentage of all children. It shows that poverty among children (people aged under 15 years) has moved within a higher band than overall poverty, fluctuating between 14.3% and 18.6% from 1999-00 to 2017-18. Before the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in 2007, it followed a similar path to the overall poverty rate, declining substantially from 18.6% in 1999-00 to 14.3% in 2003-04, and rising sharply between from 2003-04 to 18.1% in 2001-02. After the GFC, however, the path of child poverty diverged from that of overall poverty. It fell only slightly to 17.8% in 2009-10, declined further to 16.5% in 2013-14, then rose to 16.9% in 2017-18