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Incidence of Poverty and Number of Poor Households, 1985 - 1997

 

1985

1990

1993

1995

1997

  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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