India |
Region: Asia (excluding Middle East) |
| Selected EarthTrends Data: |
| Variable | Value |
| Gini Index{1} | 33 |
| Population living on less than $1/day{2} | 35% |
| Population living on less than $2/day{3} | 80% |
| Poverty Gap $1/day{4} | 8% |
| Poverty Gap $2/day{5} | 35% |
| Access to improved sanitation | 33% |
| Access to an improved water source | 86% |
| Literacy rate, all adults | 61% |
| Life expectancy, both sexes | 65 years |
| Definitions and Sources |
| {1} Survey year: 1999-2000. Based on expenditure. {2} Survey year: 1999-2000. Based on expenditure. {3} Survey year: 1999-2000. Based on expenditure. {4} Survey year: 1999-2000. Based on expenditure. {5} Survey year: 1999-2000. Based on expenditure. |
Poverty resources:
- Operationalising Pro-poor Growth: A Country Case Study on India (Document)
- Poverty and Human Development in India: Getting Priorities Right (Document)
- Poverty in India during the 1990s (Document)
- USAID India Office (Project)
- World Bank India Program (Project)
Poverty datasets:
- India Human Development Index - 2000
- India: Percent of Children Underweight - 1998-99
- Poverty in India - 1999
Citations from the World Resources Report:
- Agricultural Growth and Poverty Reduction: A Review of Lessons From the Post-Independence and Green Revolution Experience in India
- An Assessment of European-aided Watershed Development Projects in India from the Perspective of Poverty Reduction and the Poor
- Building on Poor People's Capacities: The Case of Common Property Resources in India and West Africa
- Building on Poor People's Capacities: The Case of Common Property Resources in India and West Africa
- Child Mortality in Rural India
- Common Property Resources and Dynamics of Rural Poverty in India's Dry Regions
- Common Property Resources and Dynamics of Rural Poverty in India's Dry Regions
- Common Property Resources and Rural Poor in Dry Regions of India
- Community-Based Forest Management in India: The Issue of Tenurial Significance
- Conflicts and Disturbance - A Reason to Change: Lessons from Community-Based Natural Resource Management Institutions in Orissa, India
- Decentalization: An Effective Method of Financial Management at the Grassroots (Evidence from India)
- Fine-grain Finance: Financial Choice and Strategy Among the Poor in Rural North India
- Fuelwood Consumption and Participation in Community Forestry in India
- Investment, Subsidies, and Pro-Poor Growth in Rural India
- Milk Production in India - Opportunities and Risks for Small-Scale Producers
- Participatory Watershed Development in India: Can it Sustain Rural Livelihoods?
- Participatory Watershed Development: Impacting Undernutrition in Rural India
- Poverty Alleviation in India through Innovative Policies and Better Governance
- Poverty, Private Property and Common Pool Resource Management: The Case of Irrigation Tanks in South India
- Rehabilitation of CPRs Through Re-Crafting of Village Institutions: A Comparative Study from Ethiopia and India
- Ruining the Commons and Responses of the Commoners: Coastal Over-Fishing and Fishworkers' Actions in Kerala State, India
- Scaling up Participatory Watershed Development in India: Lessons from the Indo-German Watershed Development Programme
- Sharing the Benefits of Watershed Management in Sukhomajri, India
- Small is Beautiful, but Is Larger Better? Forest-Management Institutions in the Kumaon Himalaya, India
- Social Cost-benefit Analysis of a Watershed Development Project in Karnataka, India
- Socio-Ecology of Groundwater Irrigation in India
- Spatial Expert Support System in Selecting Suitable Sites for Water Harvesting Structures - A Case Study of Song Watershed, Uttaranchal, India
- Valuing Health Damages from Water Pollution in Urban Delhi, India: A Health Production Function Approach
- Watershed Development in India: Recent Experiences and Emerging Issues
- Watershed Development Programmes in India. Emerging Issues for Environment-Development Perspectives
- Watershed Development Projects in India: An Evaluation
- Watershed Development, Environmental Services, and Poverty Alleviation in India
- Who Benefits from Participatory Watershed Development? Lessons from Gujarat, India
EarthTrends Country Profiles: (opens pdf in a new window)
World Bank PovertyNet Library: (opens in a new window)
Development Gateway: (opens in a new window)
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