List of Indian states and union territories by poverty rate

This is a list of states and union territories of India ranked according to poverty as of 2022 (2021–22) as hosted by NITI Aayog's Sustainable Development Goals dashboard; and Reserve Bank of India's 'Handbook of Statistics on Indian Economy'.^[1][2] The rank is calculated according to the percentage of people below poverty -line which is computed as per Tendulkar method on Mixed Reference Period (MRP).^[3][4]

Percentage of population who are multidimensionally poor by State and Union Territory, data from the NITI Aayog (2021)

List

	State/UT	% of population State/UT specific poverty line (2019-21)		% of population living below the Multidimensional Poverty Index in 2023[5]
		Rural	Urban
	States
1	Goa	1.90	0.12	0.37
2	Kerala	0.76	0.32	0.48
3	Tamil Nadu	2.90	1.41	1.43
4	Sikkim	3.75	0.51	2.10
5	Telangana	7.51	2.73	3.76
6	Mizoram	10.77	0.58	3.77
7	Himachal Pradesh	5.23	2.96	3.88
8	Andhra Pradesh	7.71	2.20	4.19
9	Punjab	4.74	4.76	4.35
10	Haryana	8.41	4.26	5.30
11	Manipur	10.95	3.43	5.37
12	Maharashtra	11.49	3.07	5.48
13	Karnataka	10.33	3.22	5.67
14	Uttarakhand	10.84	7.00	6.92
15	West Bengal	32.15	18.04	8.60
16	Gujarat	17.15	3.81	9.03
17	Arunachal Pradesh	15.14	5.90	10.05
18	Rajasthan	23.62	10.54	10.77
19	Odisha	17.72	5.42	11.07
	All India	19.28	5.27	11.28
20	Tripura	16.47	4.69	11.49
21	Chhattisgarh	19.71	4.59	11.71
22	Nagaland	19.88	6.14	11.76
23	Assam	21.41	6.88	14.47
24	Madhya Pradesh	25.32	7.10	15.01
25	Uttar Pradesh	15.35	6.57	17.40
26	Jharkhand	34.93	8.67	23.34
27	Meghalaya	32.43	8.14	25.46
28	Bihar	56.95	29.67	26.59
	Union Territories
1	Puducherry	0.71	0.91	0.58
2	Lakshadweep	0.36	1.32	0.84
3	Andaman and Nicobar Islands	2.71	1.60	1.63
4	Ladakh	-	-	1.73
5	Chandigarh	3.88	3.51	2.62
6	Jammu and Kashmir	6.10	1.09	2.81
7	Delhi	2.57	3.45	2.97
8	Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu	12.27	5.67	6.06

Supporting content

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day (2011 PPP) (% of population). Based on World Bank data ranging from 1998 to 2018.^[6]

World population living in extreme poverty, 1990–2015

Various poverty lines and resulting percentage of BPL population

Method	Line	Figure	% of poor population	Poor population
World Bank (2021)	poverty line	1.90 (PPP $ day)	6	84m	[7]
	lower middle-income line	3.20 (PPP $ day)	26.2	365m	[7]
	upper middle-income line	5.50 (PPP $ day)	60.1	838m	[7]
Asian Development Bank (2014)	poverty line	$ 1.51 per person per day			[8]
Tendulkar Expert Group (2009)	urban poverty line	Rs 32 per person per day consumption			[9]
	rural poverty line	Rs 26 per person per day consumption			[9]
Rangrajan Committee (2014)	urban poverty line	Rs 47 daily per capita expenditure			[9]
	rural poverty line	Rs 32 daily per capita expenditure			[9]