Poverty in India Facts and Statistics.
                     Poverty in 
India: Facts 
and Statistics
INTRODUCTION
• Two-thirds of people in 
India live in poverty: 68.8% 
of the Indian population 
lives on less than $2 a day. 
• Over 30% even have less 
than $1.25 per day 
available - they are 
considered extremely poor. 
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Poverty in India
• More than 800 million 
people in India are 
considered poor. 
• Most of them live in the 
countryside and keep 
afloat with odd jobs
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Impacts of 
Poverty on 
Children
• High infant mortality
• Malnutrition
• Child labour
• Lack of education
• Child marriage
• HIV / AIDS
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High infant 
mortality
• 1.4 million children die 
each year in India before 
their fifth birthday. 
• India is one of the 
countries with the highest 
child mortality rates. 
• Pneumonia, malaria and 
diarrheal diseases as well 
as chronic malnutrition are 
the most frequent causes 
of death.
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Malnutrition 
• More than 200 million 
people don’t have 
sufficient access to food, 
including 61 million 
children. 
• 7.8 million infants were 
found to have a birth 
weight of less than 2.5 
kilograms
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Child labour
• Although child labour for 
children under the age of 
14 in India is prohibited by 
law, according to official 
figures, 12.5 million 
children between the ages 
of 5 and 14 are working.
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Lack of 
education 
• According to UNICEF, 
about 25% of children in 
India have no access to 
education.
• The number of children 
excluded from school is 
higher among girls than 
boys.
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Child marriage
• According to an 
investigation by the 
medical journal The 
Lancet, 44.5% of girls are 
still married in India before 
they are of legal age.
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Tax Pay
• According to a survey done 
by CNN, only five percent 
of India’s surveyed 
population made enough 
to pay taxes, 2.5 percent 
owned a vehicle and less 
than 10 percent had a 
salaried job.
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Rural Scenario
• In 2012, there were 
270,000,000 — or one in 
every five —  impoverished 
Indians; 80 percent of 
these poor Indians lived in 
rural areas.
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