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Incidence of Poverty and Number of Poor Households, 1985 - 1997
1985 |
1990 |
1993 |
1995 |
1997 |
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| Total | Urban | Rural | Total | Urban | Rural | Total | Urban | Rural | Total | Urban | Rural | Total | Urban | Rural | |
| Incidence of Poverty (%) | 20.7 | 8.5 | 27.3 | 17.1 | 7.5 | 21.8 | 13.5 | 5.3 | 18.6 | 9.6 | 4.1 | 16.1 | 6.8 | 2.4 | 11.8 |
| No. of Poor Households (’000) | 649.4 | 93.0 | 556.4 | 619.4 | 89.1 | 530.3 | 517.2 | 77.9 | 439.3 | 417.2 | 95.9 | 321.3 | 346.0 | 67.4 | 278.6 |
| Incidence of Hard Core Poverty (%) | 6.9 | 2.4 | 9.3 | 4.0 | 1.4 | 5.2 | 3.0 | 1.1 | 4.3 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 3.7 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 2.4 |
| Hard Core Poor Households (’000) | 216.1 | 26.2 | 189.9 | 143.1 | 16.3 | 126.8 | 116.4 | 15.7 | 100.7 | 93.5 | 20.5 | 73.0 | 70.3 | 13.8 | 56.5 |
| Total Households (’000) | 3133.3 | 1095.3 | 2038.0 | 3614.6 | 1182.7 | 2431.9 | 3826.9 | 1464.7 | 2362.2 | 4347.8 | 2357.0 | 1990.8 | 5117.1 | 2764.3 | 2352.8 |
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