Multidimensionally poor and deprived population in school attendance India 2006 2016
As of 2016, approximately 5.5 percent of Indian population was multidimensionally poor and deprived in school attendance. This reflected a much lower percentage population living in multidimensional poverty and deprivation of school attendance ten years prior in India, which recorded almost 20 percent. 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. School attendance and years of school are the two indicators of the health dimension.