40 Percent Of Rural India Lives on 33 a Day

Bangalore: Since its Independence, the issue of poverty within India has remained a prevalent concern. As of 2010, more than 37 percent of India’s population of 1.35 billion still lives below the poverty line, reports Economy Watch. More than 22 percent of the entire rural population and 15 percent of the urban population of India exists in this difficult and financial dilemma. In 2009-2010, the per capita daily consumption in rural areas was 22.42 as compared to 28.65 in urban areas.

 According to government survey released for 2011-12 on household consumer expenditure, “The poorest 10 percent of India’s rural population had an average monthly per capita expenditure of 503. 49 per month,” as reported in The Economic Times.

In rural India, half of the population belonged to the household sector, and nearly 40 percent of the rural population had monthly per capita expenditure below 922. Their urban counterparts are slightly better with daily per capita expenditure of 23.40.

As per the National Sample Survey Organization’s (NSSO) for the period of July 2011 to June 2012, 10 percent of the urban population had an average monthly per capita expenditure of Rs 702.26. The main aim of the survey was to measure the living standard of the people in the country.