As of August 2020, respectively 50 percent and 29 percent of urban Indian households in the third and fourth quintiles, the two highest quintiles of pre-COVID-19 consumption, had to live below the poverty line after the pandemic. Meanwhile, rural poverty in India was also exacerbated by the pandemic, with respectively 34 percent and 16 percent of households in the third and fourth quintile falling below the poverty line in August 2020 within one year.
Distribution of households living below poverty line in urban and rural India as of August 2019 and August 2020, by quintile of pre-COVID-19 consumption
The source states: "Quintiles are based on 2019 mean per capita consumption levels for each region type. Consumption levels 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). All figures are in December 2019 values and observations with missing regions are dropped."
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