The Poor India

India is one of the poorest countries in the world. The poverty in India isn't just psycological poverty. The poverty in India isn't just emotional poverty. The poverty in India isn't just social poverty . The poverty in India is an absolute poverty. The poverty in India involves poverty in every aspect of life.

Poverty in India is widespread, with the nation estimated to have a third of the world's poor. According to a 2012 world bank estimate, 37% of the total Indian population falls below the international Poverty line of US$ 1.5 a day (, in nominal terms 21.6 a day in urban areas and 14.3 in rural areas).
According to 2010 data from the UNDP, an estimated 37.2% of Indians live below the country's national poverty line. A 2010 report by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) states that 8 Indian states have more poor than 26 poorest African nations combined which totals to more than 410 million poor in the poorest African countries.

The latest UNICEF data shows that one in three malnourished children worldwide are found In India, whilst 42 percent of the nation's children under five years of age are underweight. It also shows that a total of 58 percent of children under five surveyed were stunted.