Multidimensionally poor and deprived population in nutrition in India 2006-2021
As of 2021, approximately 11.8 percent of Indian population was multidimensionally poor and deprived of nutrition. This reflected a much lower percentage population living in multidimensional poverty and deprivation of nutrition in India. According to the source, a multidimensional poor individual is deprived in one-third or more of ten indicators across three equally weighted dimensions: health, education, and standard of living. Nutrition and child mortality are the two indicators of the health dimension.
