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According to World Bank, "Poverty headcount ratio at a defined value a day is the percentage of the population living on less than that value a day at 2017 purchasing power adjusted prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions."
Various poverty lines and resulting percentage of BPL population Method Line Figure % of poor population Poor population World Bank (2021) poverty line 1.90 (PPP $ day) 6 84m [7] lower middle-income line 3.20 (PPP $ day) 26.2 365m [7] upper middle-income line 5.50 (PPP $ day) 60.1 838m [7] Asian Development Bank (2014) poverty line
In its annual report of 2012, the Reserve Bank of India named the state of Goa as having the least poverty of 5.09% while the national average stood at 21.92% [7] The table below presents the poverty statistics for rural, urban and combined percentage below poverty line (BPL) for each State or Union Territory. [7]
India, in 2019 has about 2.7% [1] population under poverty level and is no longer holding the largest population under poverty level, considering Nigeria and Congo. [2] On the other hand, the Planning Commission of India uses its own criteria and has estimated that 27.5% of the population was living below the poverty line in 2004–2005, down ...
Female infanticide in India has a history spanning centuries.Poverty, the dowry system, births to unmarried women, deformed infants, famine, lack of support services, and maternal illnesses such as postpartum depression are among the causes that have been proposed to explain the phenomenon of female infanticide in India.
According to the World Bank, the Gini coefficient in India was 0.339 in 2009, [17] down from previous values of 0.43 (1995–96) and 0.45 (2004–05). [18] However, in 2016, the International Monetary Fund, in its regional economic outlook for Asia and the Pacific, said that India's Gini coefficient rose from 0.45 (1990) to 0.51 (2013). [19]
The World Poverty Clock [1] is a tool to monitor progress against poverty globally, [2] and regionally. [3] It provides real-time poverty data across countries. [4] [5] Created by the Vienna-based NGO, World Data Lab, it was launched in Berlin at the re:publica conference in 2017, [6] [7] and is funded by Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.
India's gross domestic product (GDP), adjusted for inflation, increased from $266 billion in 1991 to $3.7 trillion in 2023, while its purchasing power parity increased from $1 trillion in 1991 to $13 trillion in 2023. Poverty has declined steeply from 55.1% in 2005–06 to 16.4% in 2019–20. [36]