Describe poverty trends in India since 1973
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There was a substantial decrease in poverty in India from about 55% in 1973 to 36% in 1993.
The proportion of people below the poverty line further came down to about 26% in 2000.
If the current trend continues then people below poverty line may come below 20% in the next few years.
Although the percentage of people below the poverty line is decreasing from 1973 the number of people living below the poverty line remain the same(about 320 million(
The latest estimate indicates a significant reduction in the number of poor to about 260 million.
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there has been a decline in poverty in India the percentage of people living under poverty declined from 1973 to 1993 to 45% this for the decline 230 7.2 % in 2004 and 5 and 2 about 220 1.9 % in 2011 and 12 the number of the poor has declined from 40.7 1 crore people in 2004 and 52 26.9 T3 crore people in 2011-12