As of December 2020, 62.6 percent of Indian households spent no more than 2.4 thousand Indian rupees (INR) per month, whereas nine percent had at most merely one thousand rupees to live on. In general, the share of households within each respective cut-off value in December 2020 increased in comparison with December 2019, which most likely indicated that poverty in India had been exacerbated by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Distribution of households in India in December 2019 and December 2020, by monthly consumption expenditure
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433,021 households in Dec 2019 and 199,879 households in Dec 2020
Supplementary notes
One Indian rupee (INR) equals 0.013 U.S. dollars and 0.011 euros (as of October 2021).
The source states: "Estimates for consumption are calculated by dividing household adjusted total expenditure by household size and weighted using member level country weights. Adjusted total expenditure is the sum total of all consumption goods and services purchased by the household during a month, adjusted using weekly records. Real values are adjusted for inflation using the MOSPI CPI (IW) for urban workers and CPI (AL) for rural workers (Base 2012=100). Headcount ratio is the percentage of individuals who are below the poverty line in urban and rural areas in each year. Poverty line is the inflation-adjusted poverty line in rural areas (Rs 972 in 2011-12 prices) and urban areas (Rs 1410 in 2011-12 prices), which are adjusted to 2012 prices with the RBI CPI(AL) and CPI(IW) for 2011/12-2012/13 respectively. All figures are in December 2019 values and observations with missing regions are dropped. Despite a much larger sample in urban areas, the CPHS also underestimates mean per capita consumption in urban areas, likely reflecting their inability to survey high-income urban households. From the draft National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) Report on Household Consumer Expenditure for 2017-18, the CPHS estimate of mean per capita consumption in urban areas was 0.8 of the NSSO level for 2017-18. For rural areas, the CPHS estimate is 1.1 of the NSSO level."
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