GEOLOGY
ECONOMIC GEOLOGY
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80%
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75%
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65%
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58%
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Detailed explanation-1: -The World Bank estimates that 41.6 percent of India’s population lives below $1.25 per day and 75.6 percent live below $2 per day.
Detailed explanation-2: -NEW DELHI, Aug 10 (Reuters)-Seventy-seven percent of Indians–about 836 million people–live on less than half a dollar a day in one of the world’s hottest economies, a government report said.
Detailed explanation-3: -In India, two-thirds of its population lives in poverty, that is, 68.8%. More than half of the Indian people live on less than $2 a day, and over 30% on less than $1.25 a day. This is considered extreme poverty. The question to ask is, what are the root causes of poverty in India?
Detailed explanation-4: -She is part of a faceless, often-cited statistic: About 60% of India’s nearly 1.3 billion people live on less than $3.10 a day, the World Bank’s median poverty line. And 21%, or more than 250 million people, survive on less than $2 a day.