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Despite of remarkable economic growth India is still one of the poorest countries of the world. India is also one of the biggest countries in the world with a population of 1.35 billion^[1] (January 2019) and more than 13% live with $1.90 a day^[2]

Poverty and miserable living conditions are still widespread porblems in India. Shown is he slum Dharavi in Mumbai, considered one of the biggest in the world.

History and economical progress

The number of people living in extreme poverty has changed quickly in years past. According to the World Bank more than 90 million has escaped extreme poverty in the period between 2011/2012 and 2015. Also the townscapes in the urbanized regions have changed; the number of the poor population in cities has decreased as well.

Since 1950 the government tries to reduce the poverty, for example by subsidising groceries and other vital necessities for example through the "National Food Security Bill" from 2013. The government also developed a better education system and helped eradicating disparities between rural and urbanized areas for example trough the "Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarentee Scheme" from 2005; through this and other laws the government increased the access to better wages (minimunm wages). ^[3][4][5] The "World Poverty Clock" predicts that untill the beginnig of the year 2020 less than 3% of the total population will live in extreme poverty (currently: 3.6% according to "World Poverty Clock")^[6]

Uprising industry in India

India has one the fastest growing economies in the world. In 2017 India had a GDP (Gross domestic product) grwoth rate of 6.7%^[7] (still increasing), while Germany had a growth rate of 2.5%^[8] (aim: continual and appropriate economic growth (StabG)^[9].

GDP per capita of China and India

The economic progress also has an influence on the national prosperity of the country. The labour force increased and also the employmentrates in "higher" paied jobs did: The rate of employees in wage employement increased by approximatly 8% in the period of 1993 untill 2012^[10]

Poverty prevalence

Living Expenses in India

2012 Poverty distribution map in India by its states and union territories

Estimatedly in India you need 130 rupees to live a sufficent wealthy life

Political problems

Manipulation

References

1. ↑ Accoridng to recent data: http://www.indiaonlinepages.com/population/india-current-population.html
2. ↑ ^{2,0 2,1} Accordind to poverty data of India by the World bank: http://povertydata.worldbank.org/poverty/country/IND
3. ↑ http://www.bpb.de/internationales/asien/indien/189202/grosse-armut-und-zunehmende-ungleichheit (german), last accessed 16.01.2019
4. ↑ National Food Security Act 2013: https://www.india.gov.in/national-food-security-act-2013
5. ↑ Ministry of Rural Development, India: http://nrega.nic.in/netnrega/home.aspx
6. ↑ "World Poverty Clock" by World Data Lab in Vienna: https://worldpoverty.io/, last accessed 16.01.2019
7. ↑ Data for India by the "Internation Monetary Fund (IMF)": https://www.imf.org/en/Countries/IND, last accessed 16.01.2019
8. ↑ Data for Germany by the "Internation Monetary Fund (IMF)": https://www.imf.org/en/Countries/DEU , last accessed 16.01.2019
9. ↑ "Stabilitäts- und Wachstumsgesetz (StabG)" - Law ain furtherance of economic growth [...]: http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stabg/ (german), last accessed 16.01.2019
10. ↑ India Wage Report 2018 by the "International Labour Organization (ILO)": https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---asia/---ro-bangkok/---sro-new_delhi/documents/publication/wcms_638305.pdf