{
 "meta": {
  "dossier": "poverty",
  "product": "pip",
  "source": "World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP)",
  "vintage": "2026-09-22",
  "mock": false,
  "geo": "IND",
  "releaseDate": "2026-09-22",
  "revisionPolicy": "Each PIP release can revise any past estimate (new PPPs, new population figures, reprocessed surveys). The raw dump keeps every release.",
  "frequency": "irregular",
  "base": "2021 PPP, comparable spell 2011",
  "latestPeriod": "2011",
  "spell": "2011",
  "surveys": [
   {
    "year": 2011,
    "survey": "NSS-SCH2",
    "period": "2011-2012",
    "welfare": "consumption",
    "distribution": "micro"
   }
  ],
  "coverage": "PIP surveys in the comparable spell 2011: NSS-SCH2 2011-2012",
  "note": "Each date is a survey's reporting year (the survey's own period is in meta.surveys). Shares are per cent of people; money is 2021 PPP dollars a day per person. Poor counts are derived (headcount times population). Never join this spell to another."
 },
 "dates": [
  "2011-01-01"
 ],
 "series": {
  "headcount_3_00": {
   "name": "headcount_3.00",
   "label": "Share of people below $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), per cent",
   "unit": "pct",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    27.12
   ]
  },
  "poverty_gap_3_00": {
   "name": "poverty_gap_3.00",
   "label": "Poverty gap at $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), per cent",
   "unit": "pct",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    5.25
   ]
  },
  "poverty_severity_3_00": {
   "name": "poverty_severity_3.00",
   "label": "Poverty severity (squared gap) at $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), per cent",
   "unit": "pct",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    1.52
   ]
  },
  "watts_3_00": {
   "name": "watts_3.00",
   "label": "Watts index at $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), per cent",
   "unit": "coefficient",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    0.0629
   ]
  },
  "poor_3_00": {
   "name": "poor_millions_3.00",
   "label": "People below $3.00 a day, millions (derived: headcount x population)",
   "unit": "million_persons",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    344.41
   ]
  },
  "headcount_4_20": {
   "name": "headcount_4.20",
   "label": "Share of people below $4.20 a day (2021 PPP), per cent",
   "unit": "pct",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    57.68
   ]
  },
  "poverty_gap_4_20": {
   "name": "poverty_gap_4.20",
   "label": "Poverty gap at $4.20 a day (2021 PPP), per cent",
   "unit": "pct",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    16.09
   ]
  },
  "poverty_severity_4_20": {
   "name": "poverty_severity_4.20",
   "label": "Poverty severity (squared gap) at $4.20 a day (2021 PPP), per cent",
   "unit": "pct",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    6.03
   ]
  },
  "watts_4_20": {
   "name": "watts_4.20",
   "label": "Watts index at $4.20 a day (2021 PPP), per cent",
   "unit": "coefficient",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    0.2052
   ]
  },
  "poor_4_20": {
   "name": "poor_millions_4.20",
   "label": "People below $4.20 a day, millions (derived: headcount x population)",
   "unit": "million_persons",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    732.51
   ]
  },
  "headcount_8_30": {
   "name": "headcount_8.30",
   "label": "Share of people below $8.30 a day (2021 PPP), per cent",
   "unit": "pct",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    92.48
   ]
  },
  "poverty_gap_8_30": {
   "name": "poverty_gap_8.30",
   "label": "Poverty gap at $8.30 a day (2021 PPP), per cent",
   "unit": "pct",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    48.05
   ]
  },
  "poverty_severity_8_30": {
   "name": "poverty_severity_8.30",
   "label": "Poverty severity (squared gap) at $8.30 a day (2021 PPP), per cent",
   "unit": "pct",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    27.98
   ]
  },
  "watts_8_30": {
   "name": "watts_8.30",
   "label": "Watts index at $8.30 a day (2021 PPP), per cent",
   "unit": "coefficient",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    0.7425
   ]
  },
  "poor_8_30": {
   "name": "poor_millions_8.30",
   "label": "People below $8.30 a day, millions (derived: headcount x population)",
   "unit": "million_persons",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    1174.45
   ]
  },
  "headcount_1_00": {
   "name": "headcount_1.00",
   "label": "Share of people below $1.00 a day (2021 PPP), per cent",
   "unit": "pct",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    0.03
   ]
  },
  "headcount_1_50": {
   "name": "headcount_1.50",
   "label": "Share of people below $1.50 a day (2021 PPP), per cent",
   "unit": "pct",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    0.69
   ]
  },
  "headcount_2_00": {
   "name": "headcount_2.00",
   "label": "Share of people below $2.00 a day (2021 PPP), per cent",
   "unit": "pct",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    4.51
   ]
  },
  "headcount_2_50": {
   "name": "headcount_2.50",
   "label": "Share of people below $2.50 a day (2021 PPP), per cent",
   "unit": "pct",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    13.78
   ]
  },
  "headcount_3_50": {
   "name": "headcount_3.50",
   "label": "Share of people below $3.50 a day (2021 PPP), per cent",
   "unit": "pct",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    40.94
   ]
  },
  "headcount_5_00": {
   "name": "headcount_5.00",
   "label": "Share of people below $5.00 a day (2021 PPP), per cent",
   "unit": "pct",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    70.97
   ]
  },
  "headcount_6_00": {
   "name": "headcount_6.00",
   "label": "Share of people below $6.00 a day (2021 PPP), per cent",
   "unit": "pct",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    81.59
   ]
  },
  "headcount_7_00": {
   "name": "headcount_7.00",
   "label": "Share of people below $7.00 a day (2021 PPP), per cent",
   "unit": "pct",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    88.03
   ]
  },
  "headcount_10_00": {
   "name": "headcount_10.00",
   "label": "Share of people below $10.00 a day (2021 PPP), per cent",
   "unit": "pct",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    95.68
   ]
  },
  "headcount_12_00": {
   "name": "headcount_12.00",
   "label": "Share of people below $12.00 a day (2021 PPP), per cent",
   "unit": "pct",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    97.33
   ]
  },
  "headcount_15_00": {
   "name": "headcount_15.00",
   "label": "Share of people below $15.00 a day (2021 PPP), per cent",
   "unit": "pct",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    98.64
   ]
  },
  "headcount_20_00": {
   "name": "headcount_20.00",
   "label": "Share of people below $20.00 a day (2021 PPP), per cent",
   "unit": "pct",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    99.43
   ]
  },
  "headcount_25_00": {
   "name": "headcount_25.00",
   "label": "Share of people below $25.00 a day (2021 PPP), per cent",
   "unit": "pct",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    99.71
   ]
  },
  "headcount_30_00": {
   "name": "headcount_30.00",
   "label": "Share of people below $30.00 a day (2021 PPP), per cent",
   "unit": "pct",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    99.84
   ]
  },
  "headcount_40_00": {
   "name": "headcount_40.00",
   "label": "Share of people below $40.00 a day (2021 PPP), per cent",
   "unit": "pct",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    99.93
   ]
  },
  "mean": {
   "name": "mean",
   "label": "Mean consumption per person a day, 2021 PPP $",
   "unit": "ppp_usd_day",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    4.6442
   ]
  },
  "median": {
   "name": "median",
   "label": "Median consumption per person a day, 2021 PPP $",
   "unit": "ppp_usd_day",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    3.8564
   ]
  },
  "gini": {
   "name": "gini",
   "label": "Gini index of consumption",
   "unit": "gini_index",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    28.78
   ]
  },
  "mld": {
   "name": "mld",
   "label": "Mean log deviation (an inequality index)",
   "unit": "coefficient",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    0.1359
   ]
  },
  "polarization": {
   "name": "polarization",
   "label": "Polarisation index",
   "unit": "coefficient",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    0.2242
   ]
  },
  "spl": {
   "name": "spl",
   "label": "Societal poverty line, 2021 PPP $ a day",
   "unit": "ppp_usd_day",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    3.228
   ]
  },
  "spr": {
   "name": "spr",
   "label": "Societal poverty rate, per cent",
   "unit": "pct",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    33.44
   ]
  },
  "pg": {
   "name": "pg",
   "label": "Prosperity gap: the average factor by which consumption falls short of the prosperity standard ($28 a day, 2021 PPP, as WDI states it)",
   "unit": "multiple",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    7.6706
   ]
  },
  "ppp": {
   "name": "ppp",
   "label": "PPP conversion factor used (rupees per 2021 international $)",
   "unit": "inr_per_ppp_usd",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    19.469
   ]
  },
  "cpi": {
   "name": "cpi",
   "label": "CPI relative to 2021 used by PIP (2021 = 1)",
   "unit": "multiple",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    0.5905
   ]
  },
  "reporting_pop": {
   "name": "reporting_pop",
   "label": "Population the estimate refers to",
   "unit": "count",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    1269949728
   ]
  },
  "decile1": {
   "name": "decile1",
   "label": "Share of all consumption held by decile 1 (poorest tenth), per cent",
   "unit": "pct",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    4.25
   ]
  },
  "decile2": {
   "name": "decile2",
   "label": "Share of all consumption held by decile 2 (from the bottom tenth), per cent",
   "unit": "pct",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    5.48
   ]
  },
  "decile3": {
   "name": "decile3",
   "label": "Share of all consumption held by decile 3 (from the bottom tenth), per cent",
   "unit": "pct",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    6.29
   ]
  },
  "decile4": {
   "name": "decile4",
   "label": "Share of all consumption held by decile 4 (from the bottom tenth), per cent",
   "unit": "pct",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    7.07
   ]
  },
  "decile5": {
   "name": "decile5",
   "label": "Share of all consumption held by decile 5 (from the bottom tenth), per cent",
   "unit": "pct",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    7.87
   ]
  },
  "decile6": {
   "name": "decile6",
   "label": "Share of all consumption held by decile 6 (from the bottom tenth), per cent",
   "unit": "pct",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    8.78
   ]
  },
  "decile7": {
   "name": "decile7",
   "label": "Share of all consumption held by decile 7 (from the bottom tenth), per cent",
   "unit": "pct",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    9.93
   ]
  },
  "decile8": {
   "name": "decile8",
   "label": "Share of all consumption held by decile 8 (from the bottom tenth), per cent",
   "unit": "pct",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    11.49
   ]
  },
  "decile9": {
   "name": "decile9",
   "label": "Share of all consumption held by decile 9 (from the bottom tenth), per cent",
   "unit": "pct",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    14.04
   ]
  },
  "decile10": {
   "name": "decile10",
   "label": "Share of all consumption held by decile 10 (richest tenth), per cent",
   "unit": "pct",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    24.8
   ]
  },
  "survey_mean_lcu": {
   "name": "survey_mean_lcu",
   "label": "Mean consumption per person a day, rupees at survey prices",
   "unit": "inr_day",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    53.3953
   ]
  }
 }
}