Multidimensional poverty in India, which apart from food covers access to health and education facilities, is estimated to have declined from 29.17 per cent in 2013-14 to 11.28 per cent in 2022-23 ...

A Progress Review 2023', Singh said that between 2015-16 and 2019-21, the poverty rate reduced from 24.85 per cent to 14.96 per cent, which means about 13.5 crore people were lifted out of ...

Recent World Bank data reveals a significant decline in India's extreme poverty rate, dropping from 27.1% in 2011-12 to 5.3% in 2022-23, lifting nearly 270 million people out of extreme poverty.