India poverty rate for 2022 was 82.10%, a 0.3% increase from 2021.
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.
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. The full historical dataset is available for download here: India Poverty Rate | Historical Data | 1977 - 2022.