Poverty in India
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|Poverty Headcount Ratio (2010)[1] |
|Poverty Trend |World Bank | |
|Live less than $1.25|32.7% (400 | |
|a day |million) | |
|Live less than $2 a |68.7% (841 | |
|day |million) | |
|Live less than $2.5 |81.1% (992 | |
|a day |million) | |
|Live less than $4 a |93.7% (1,148 | |
|day |million) | |
|Live less than $5 a |96.9% (1,179 | |
|day |million) | |
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Map of world poverty by country, showing percentage of population living on less than $1.75 per day. Based on 2009 UN Human Development Report.
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Map of world poverty by country, showing percentage of population living on less than $2 per day. Based on 2009 UN Human Development Report.
Poverty in India is widespread, with the nation estimated to have a third of the world's poor. In 2010, the World Bank reported that 32.7% of the total Indian people fall below the international poverty line of US$ 1.25 per day (PPP) while 68.7% live on less than US$ 2 per day.[1]
According to 2010 data from the United Nations Development Programme, an estimated 29.8% of Indians live below the country's national poverty line.[2] A 2010 report by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) states that 8 Indian states have more poor people than 26 poorest African nations combined which totals to more than 410 million poor in the poorest African countries.[3][4]
According to a 2011 poverty Development Goals Report, as many as 320 million people in India and China are expected to come out of extreme poverty in the next four years, while India's poverty rate is projected to drop to 22% in 2015.[5] The report also indicates that in Southern Asia, however, only India, where the poverty rate is...
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