Acute poverty in Telangana has shown a sharp decline over the past one decade, the National Multidimensional Poverty Index of Niti Aayog shows. The headcount of people living in acute poverty is calculated to have dropped to 3.76% by 2022-23. It was 13.18% at the time of formation of the new State.
The data has been extrapolated from the National Family Health Survey information of (2019-21) and shows an overall reduction in multidimensional poverty in India from 29.17% in 2013-14 to 11.28% in 2022-23 with about 24.82 crore people escaping poverty during this period.
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