Poverty Headcount / India
India Poverty Headcount
India poverty headcount data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 21.90%.
COUNTRY: India
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-07-06 05:11:11
GM ECONOMY RATING
India · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BBB
73 / 100
Good stability
Fiscal stability
9.1 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
19.0 / 20
External stability
11.0 / 15
Financial robustness
15.0 / 15
Structural stability
10.0 / 15
Future capacity
10.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
2.5 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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India · poverty headcount data as percent of GDP.
Latest
21.90%
Previous
29.80%
Range avg.
33.55%
Rank
28
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CountryIndia
IndicatorPoverty Headcount
21.90%2011 · Rank 28
Chart range
All indicators
Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
India recorded 21.90% for Poverty Headcount in 2011, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2009, the indicator decreased by 7.90 percentage points, from 29.80% to 21.90%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 4 available observations (33.55%).
Within the last 4 available observations, the low was 21.90% in 2011 and the high was 45.30% in 1993.
Comparison
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