3 times higher poverty rates in Indian households with children: Survey

A household is 1.6 times more likely to be deprived in access to basic necessities such as shelter, sanitation, education and water if there is an illiterate woman in the family.

Nearly half (47.9 per cent) the Indian households that have more than five children are severely deprived of shelter, water, sanitation, health and education as compared to 7.8 per cent of poor families without children, according to the latest Indian Human Development Survey released on May 11, 2019.

Up to 24 per cent of the world’s poor live in India, the fifth largest country by gross domestic product in 2017, according to the World Bank. India's richest 1per cent held 58 per cent of the country's total wealth, which was higher than the