415 million Indians lifted out of poverty in 15 years: UNDP report

Those at the bottom of the pyramid are among those seeing the most progress, says UNDP report

Around 415 million people moved out of poverty in India between 2005-06 and 2019-21. “The poorest states and groups, including children and people in disadvantaged caste groups, had the fastest absolute progress,” said the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2023 report from the United Nations Development Programme and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI). 

The latest instalment of the report released on Tuesday noted that 25 countries across the world, including India and China, had shown an encouraging trend by reducing deprivations experienced by poor people in the last 15 years.
 

India still lives in a relatively poor neighbourhood, shows an