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India’s Poverty Statistics (2011-2023)
April 30 , 2025
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- As per the World Bank data, India has lifted 171 million people from extreme poverty in the decade between 2011-12 and 2022-23.
- The World Bank's Spring 2025 Poverty and Equity Brief highlights this.
- Extreme poverty (living on less than $2.15 per day) fell from 16.2 per cent in 2011-12 to 2.3 per cent in 2022-23.
- Rural extreme poverty dropped from 18.4 per cent to 2.8 per cent, and the urban from 10.7 per cent to 1.1 per cent.
- India was narrowing the rural-urban gap from 7.7 to 1.7 percentage points a 16 per cent annual decline.
- As per the $3.65 per day Lower-Middle-Income Category poverty line, poverty fell from 61.8 per cent to 28.1 per cent, lifting 378 million people out of poverty.
- India's five most populous states Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar, West Bengal, and Madhya Pradesh accounted for 65 per cent of the country's extreme poor in 2011-12.
- They contributed to two-thirds of the overall decline in extreme poverty by 2022-23.
- These states still accounted for 54 per cent of India's extremely poor (2022-23) and 51 per cent of the multidimensionally poor (2019-21).
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