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Poverty rate in India from 2011 to 2023, by methodology and source

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Release date

June 2025

Region

India

Survey time period

2011 to 2023

Supplementary notes

*Last officially recognized methodology on poverty estimates (2009).

**Officially commissioned methodology on poverty estimates (2014).

***2017 PPP estimates.

Figures for Tendulkar and Rangarajan methodology 2022-23 calculated by author.

In purchasing power parity, 1 international dollar is equal to 20.6 rupees.

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Poverty rate in India 2011-2023, by methodology and source

Published by Zeynep Dierks, Jul 3, 2025

Depending on the methodology and source, the poverty rate in India varied. According to Bhalla and Bhasin, using the World Bank's international *** dollars a day poverty line, the poverty rate was *** percent. It increased to over ** percent with the poverty line of *** dollars a day. India's last officially recognized poverty estimates, or the Tendulkar methodology, estimated poverty levels at over ** percent in 2011-12.

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