Multidimensionally poor and deprived population in assets in India 2006-2021
As of 2021, approximately six percent of the Indian population was multidimensionally poor and deprived in assets. This reflected a much lower percentage population living in multidimensional poverty and deprivation of assets ten years prior in India multidimensional poor individual is deprived in one-third or more of ten indicators across three equally weighted dimensions: health, education, and standard of living. Assets is among the six indicators of the standard of living dimension.