The Planning Commission of India periodically estimates poverty lines and poverty ratios for each year for which Large Sample Surveys on Household Consumer Expenditure have been conducted by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. Normally these surveys are conducted on a quinquennial basis (Every 5 years). However the last quinquennial survey in this series was conducted in 2009-10 (NSS 66th round), since 2009-10 was not a normal year because of a severe drought in India, the NSSO repeated the large scale survey in 2011-12 (NSS 68th round). The summary results of this survey were released in June 2013 and are now available for download below in pdf format. This is the latest and most up to date poverty statistics in India and will have to be used until the next NSSO survey on poverty which is scheduled for 2014 – 2015.
POVERTY IN INDIA FACTS 2014
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INDIA POVERTY STATISTICS
As per the survey conducted in 2011-2012, the percentage of persons below the Poverty Line in India for the year 2011-12 has been estimated as 25.7% in rural areas, 13.7% in urban areas, and 21.9% for the country as a whole. The respective ratios for the rural and urban areas were 41.8% and 25.7% and 37.2% for the country as a whole in 2004-05. It was 50.1% in rural areas, 31.8% in urban areas, and 45.3% for the country as a whole in 1993-94. In 2011-12, India had 270 million persons below the Tendulkar Poverty Line as compared to 407 million in 2004-05, which is a reduction of 137 million persons over the seven-year period.
