Multidimensionally poor and deprived population in cooking fuel India 2006 and 2016
As of 2016, approximately 26.2 percent of Indian population was multidimensionally poor and deprived in cooking fuel. This reflected a much lower percentage population living in multidimensional poverty and deprivation of cooking fuel ten years prior in India, which recorded almost 53 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. Cooking fuel is among the six indicators of the standard of living dimension.