poverty-ridden vs poverty-stricken

poverty-ridden

adj
  • Suffering from poverty. 

  • During which one suffers or has suffered from poverty. 

  • Filled with or plagued by poverty. 

poverty-stricken

adj
  • Very poor. 

How often have the words poverty-ridden and poverty-stricken occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )