FIGURE 8.2 From Bad to Worse? The overall poverty rate for Canadian children is bad enough at 17 percent. Canada is ranked 25th out of 30 industrialized countries tracked by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. However, for Aboriginal children in Canada, the poverty rate is even worse, at 40 percent. And as this map shows, regional variations mean that in provinces such as Manitoba and Saskatchewan, the rate exceeds 50 percent. What the map does not show is that the poverty rate specifically for on-reserve First Nations children in those two provinces is an astounding 62 and 64 percent, respectively. How can such rates be acceptable in a wealthy nation like Canada?