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India is not particularly well off. It has a higher poverty rate than Africa, for example.
by jeb 16y ago
India is not particularly well off. It has a higher poverty rate than Africa, for example.
- w1ntermute 16y agoIs there something I'm missing? Africa is 45.78% http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=africa+poverty+rate http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=africa+poverty+rate India is 25% http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=india+poverty+rate http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=india+poverty+rate
- jeb 16y agohttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/14/poverty-india-africa-oxford http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/14/poverty-india-af...
- w1ntermute 16y agoThere are more poor people in eight states of India than in the 26 countries of sub-Saharan Africa That doesn't say anything about the poverty rate. When the vast central Indian Madhya Pradesh state, which has a population of 70 million, was compared with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the war-racked African state of 62 million inhabitants, the two were found to have near-identical levels of poverty. So that means certain parts of India have equal or greater levels of poverty than certain parts of Africa. But the poverty rate as a whole is lower.