India poverty rate for 2021 was 81.80%, a 1.2% decline from 2020.
India poverty rate for 2020 was 83.00%, a 2.3% increase from 2019.
India poverty rate for 2019 was 80.70%, a 2% decline from 2018.
India poverty rate for 2018 was 82.70%, a 2.7% decline from 2017.
Poverty headcount ratio at $5.50 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $5.50 a day at 2011 international 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.
