India's sharp decline in poverty contrasts with Pakistan's deepening crisis, highlighting the impact of governance and economic policies, according to the World Bank.

The latest World Bank data paints a dramatic contrast between India and Pakistan’s fight against poverty, reflecting not just differing ...

India breaks into the SDG Top 100 for the first time in 2025, boosted by gains in clean energy, health access, and poverty ...

India's extreme poverty rate fell from 27.1% in 2012 to 5.3% in 2022, lifting 269 million out of poverty. In contrast, Pakistan's extreme poverty rose from 4.9% in 2017 to 16.5% in 2021, with ...

While India has made strong progress in reducing poverty, Pakistan is facing a serious rise in it. Between 2012 and 2022, extreme poverty in India dropped from 27.1 per cent to just 5.3 per cent.

As of FY25, Pakistan’s defence expenditure is 2.3 per cent of their GDP – exceeding those of India (1.9 per cent), China (under 1.5 per cent) and the European Union (about 1.9 per cent).

India's extreme poverty rate declined sharply to 5.3 per cent over a decade from 27.1 per cent in 2011-12 even as the World Bank revised upwards its threshold poverty line to $3 per day.. Given ...

Given India's inflation rate between 2017 and 2021, a revised extreme poverty line of USD 3 would constitute a 15 per cent higher threshold than USD 2.15 expressed in 2021 prices and result in a 5 ...

India has managed to reduce its 'extreme poverty rate' from 27.1% in 2011-12 to 5.3% in 2022-23, data by the World Bank said, indicating that India's economic trajectory has seen a transformative ...

The World Bank, in its report titled "Poverty Projections for Pakistan," noted a 25.3 percent poverty rate in 2024, up by 7 percentage points from 2023, pushing an additional 13 million people ...

With the World Bank’s latest report showing the proportion of people living on less than 2.15 US dollars a day, which is the international benchmark for extreme poverty, fell sharply from ...

Extreme poverty (living on less than $2.15 per day) fell from 16.2% in 2011-12 to 2.3% in 2022-23, lifting 171 million people above this line,” the World Bank had said in its ‘Poverty & Equity ...