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  "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": "annual",
  "base": "2021 PPP, World Bank lineup estimates",
  "latestPeriod": "2026",
  "lastSurveyYear": 2023,
  "estimationType": {
   "1981": "interpolation, projection",
   "1982": "interpolation, projection",
   "1983": "survey, actual",
   "1984": "interpolation, projection",
   "1985": "interpolation, projection",
   "1986": "interpolation, projection",
   "1987": "interpolation, projection",
   "1988": "interpolation, projection",
   "1989": "interpolation, projection",
   "1990": "interpolation, projection",
   "1991": "interpolation, projection",
   "1992": "interpolation, projection",
   "1993": "interpolation, projection",
   "1994": "interpolation, projection",
   "1995": "interpolation, projection",
   "1996": "interpolation, projection",
   "1997": "interpolation, projection",
   "1998": "interpolation, projection",
   "1999": "interpolation, projection",
   "2000": "interpolation, projection",
   "2001": "interpolation, projection",
   "2002": "interpolation, projection",
   "2003": "interpolation, projection",
   "2004": "interpolation, projection",
   "2005": "interpolation, projection",
   "2006": "interpolation, projection",
   "2007": "interpolation, projection",
   "2008": "interpolation, projection",
   "2009": "interpolation, projection",
   "2010": "interpolation, projection",
   "2011": "interpolation, projection",
   "2012": "interpolation, projection",
   "2013": "interpolation, projection",
   "2014": "interpolation, projection",
   "2015": "interpolation, projection",
   "2016": "interpolation, projection",
   "2017": "interpolation, projection",
   "2018": "interpolation, projection",
   "2019": "interpolation, projection",
   "2020": "interpolation, projection",
   "2021": "interpolation, projection",
   "2022": "interpolation, projection",
   "2023": "interpolation, projection",
   "2024": "extrapolation, projection",
   "2025": "extrapolation, nowcast",
   "2026": "extrapolation, nowcast"
  },
  "coverage": "World Bank lineup estimates for India, every calendar year: interpolated between surveys, extrapolated (nowcast) after the last",
  "note": "Every value is a World Bank model estimate, not a survey reading, including in survey years (the lineup aligns survey periods to calendar years). It bridges surveys that PIP itself marks as not comparable. Values after 2023 are nowcasts, kept in separate *_nowcast series."
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 "dates": [
  "1981-01-01",
  "1982-01-01",
  "1983-01-01",
  "1984-01-01",
  "1985-01-01",
  "1986-01-01",
  "1987-01-01",
  "1988-01-01",
  "1989-01-01",
  "1990-01-01",
  "1991-01-01",
  "1992-01-01",
  "1993-01-01",
  "1994-01-01",
  "1995-01-01",
  "1996-01-01",
  "1997-01-01",
  "1998-01-01",
  "1999-01-01",
  "2000-01-01",
  "2001-01-01",
  "2002-01-01",
  "2003-01-01",
  "2004-01-01",
  "2005-01-01",
  "2006-01-01",
  "2007-01-01",
  "2008-01-01",
  "2009-01-01",
  "2010-01-01",
  "2011-01-01",
  "2012-01-01",
  "2013-01-01",
  "2014-01-01",
  "2015-01-01",
  "2016-01-01",
  "2017-01-01",
  "2018-01-01",
  "2019-01-01",
  "2020-01-01",
  "2021-01-01",
  "2022-01-01",
  "2023-01-01",
  "2024-01-01",
  "2025-01-01",
  "2026-01-01"
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    54.62,
    50.87,
    51.09,
    51.3,
    51.52,
    51.75,
    51.17,
    50.16,
    49.38,
    49.31,
    48.74,
    48.02,
    47.48,
    47.38,
    47.16,
    47.22,
    47.23,
    46.96,
    46.92,
    46.96,
    47.06,
    46.9,
    46.62,
    45.12,
    42.4,
    39.68,
    38.51,
    36.22,
    31.61,
    28.51,
    26.01,
    23.34,
    20.32,
    17.11,
    14.08,
    11.75,
    9.88,
    8.7,
    9.66,
    8.13,
    6.27,
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    418.62,
    423.35,
    424.37,
    427.12,
    435.86,
    440.1,
    442.8,
    446.86,
    454.99,
    462.02,
    471.79,
    481.12,
    487.55,
    496.38,
    506.18,
    516.53,
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    497.3,
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    332.58,
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    135.82,
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    56.95,
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    77.98,
    78.15,
    78.32,
    78.5,
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    78.36,
    77.75,
    77.29,
    77.29,
    76.98,
    76.51,
    76.12,
    75.97,
    75.81,
    75.7,
    75.58,
    75.33,
    75.24,
    75.17,
    75.14,
    74.94,
    74.64,
    73.68,
    71.83,
    69.92,
    69.11,
    67.4,
    63.28,
    59.4,
    56.42,
    53.59,
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    34.21,
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