List of Indian states and union territories by poverty rate

This is a list of states and union territories of India ranked according to poverty as of 2022 (2021–22) as hosted by NITI Aayog's Sustainable Development Goals dashboard; and Reserve Bank of India's 'Handbook of Statistics on Indian Economy'.[1][2] The rank is calculated according to the percentage of people below poverty -line which is computed as per Tendulkar method on Mixed Reference Period (MRP).[3][4]

Poverty rate map of India by prevalence in 2022, among its states and union territories

List

State/UT	% of population State/UT specific poverty line		% of population living below the Multidimensional Poverty Index in 2023[5]
State/UT	Rural	Urban
States
Kerala	0.76	0.32	0.55
Goa	1.90	0.12	0.84
Sikkim	3.75	0.51	2.60
Tamil Nadu	2.90	1.41	2.20
Punjab	4.74	4.76	4.75
Himachal Pradesh	5.23	2.96	4.93
Mizoram	10.77	0.58	5.30
Andhra Pradesh	7.71	2.20	6.06
Haryana	8.41	4.26	7.07
Karnataka	10.33	3.22	7.58
Telangana	7.51	2.73	5.88
Maharashtra	11.49	3.07	7.81
Tripura	16.47	4.69	13.11
Uttarakhand	10.84	7.00	9.67
Manipur	10.95	3.43	8.10
Gujarat	17.15	3.81	11.66
West Bengal	15.15	5.04	11.89
All India	19.28	5.27	14.96
Arunachal Pradesh	15.14	5.90	13.76
Nagaland	19.88	6.14	15.43
Odisha	17.72	5.42	15.68
Rajasthan	18.62	4.54	15.31
Chhattisgarh	19.71	4.59	16.37
Assam	21.41	6.88	19.35
Meghalaya	32.43	8.14	27.79
Madhya Pradesh	25.32	7.10	20.63
Uttar Pradesh	26.35	11.57	22.93
Jharkhand	34.93	8.67	28.81
Bihar	36.95	16.67	33.76
Union Territories
Andaman and Nicobar Islands	2.71	1.60	2.30
Lakshadweep	0.36	1.32	1.11
Puducherry	0.71	0.91	0.85
Delhi	2.57	3.45	3.43
Jammu and Kashmir	6.10	1.09	4.80
Chandigarh	3.88	3.51	3.52
Dadra and Nagar Haveli	12.27	5.67	9.21
Daman and Diu	–	–	9.21

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day (2011 PPP) (% of population). Based on World Bank data ranging from 1998 to 2018.[6]

World population living in extreme poverty, 1990–2015

Various poverty lines and resulting percentage of BPL population
Method	Line	Figure	% of poor population	Poor population
World Bank (2021)	poverty line	1.90 (PPP $ day)	6	84m	[7]
	lower middle-income line	3.20 (PPP $ day)	26.2	365m	[7]
	upper middle-income line	5.50 (PPP $ day)	60.1	838m	[7]
Asian Development Bank (2014)	poverty line	$ 1.51 per person per day			[8]
Tendulkar Expert Group (2009)	urban poverty line	Rs 32 per person per day consumption			[9]
Tendulkar Expert Group (2009)	rural poverty line	Rs 26 per person per day consumption			[9]
Rangrajan Committee (2014)	urban poverty line	Rs 47 daily per capita expenditure			[9]
Rangrajan Committee (2014)	rural poverty line	Rs 32 daily per capita expenditure			[9]

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