TNPSC Thervupettagam

India’s population under extreme poverty

March 8 , 2024 123 days 257 0
  • As per the World Poverty Clock, India has managed to bring down ‘extreme poverty’ below 3 per cent of its population.
  • The World Poverty Clock provides real-time poverty estimates through 2030 for nearly every country in the world.
  • The clock has taken $2.15 a day income to present the finding.
  • Accordingly, nearly 3.44 crore people are living in extreme population in 2024 against 4.69 crore in 2022.
  • As a share of total population, number of people living in extreme poverty has come down to 2.4 per cent from 3.3 per cent in 2022.

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