India has less poor as % than Pakistan ? That's news to me because everybody else disagrees .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...els-higher-than-Pakistans-says-UN-report.html
The report also finds more 'gender equality' in conservative Pakistan than in 'tolerant' India.
Its findings amount to a wake-up call for a nation which has taken great pride in its rapid economic growth and the increasing clout of its billionaire business leaders but has failed to share the spoils with its poor. Britain's Department for Internmational Development has pointed to this chequered progress to justify its continuing aid to India.
The Human Development Report reveals that while India ranks slightly above Pakistan in its level of 'human development' – based on life expectancy, schooling and per capita income – its wider poverty level is worse than Pakistan's.
In absolute terms, 41.6 per cent of India's 1.1 billion people earned less than 78 pence per day compared with 22.6 per cent of Pakistan's 173 million.
The report quotes its 'multi-dimensional poverty index' which includes measures of schooling, child mortality, nutrition, access to electricity, toilets, drinking water, and hygienic living conditions, and reveals India is poorer.
Have a look at Multi dimensional Poverty
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/47528-pakistan-ranks-better-than-india-bangladesh-on-poverty-scale
LAHORE: Pakistan is in a state of turmoil but still it is far better ranked than India and Bangladesh as is revealed by Multidimensional Poverty Index released by Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative.
According to the index, Pakistan’s MPI is 0.230 and the percentage number of poor is 44.2 percent. The intensity of poverty across the poor is around 52.1 percent, where 15.1 percent of the population is vulnerable to poverty, 23.7 percent lives in severe poverty, and 20.7 percent is classified as destitute. Destitute people are those deprived of even basic amenities of life.
The MPI for Bangladesh is 0.253 and the percentage of number of poor is 51.3 percent. The intensity of poverty across the poor is 49.4 percent, where 20.4 percent of the population is vulnerable to poverty, 21.7 percent lives in severe poverty, and 17.2 percent is classified as destitute.
The MPI for India is 0.283 and the percentage number of poor is 53.7 percent. The intensity of poverty across the poor is 52.7 percent, where 16.4 percent of the population is vulnerable to poverty, 28.6 percent lives in severe poverty, and 28.5 percent is classified as destitute
Now lets go to World Bank poverty figures as % .
http://povertydata.worldbank.org/poverty/country/PAK
http://povertydata.worldbank.org/poverty/country/IND
As for Social Indicators like I said i can give 20-30 Indicators . Sanitation , Gender Inequality , Happiness Report , Prevalence of Diseases like Maleria/HIV/Heptitus (much higher in India) , Economic freedom , Electricity Access , Environment sustainability and many more . Recently in WEF's development Index
https://www.dawn.com/news/1308890
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has been ranked 52nd, ahead from India (60th), among 79 developing economies in the Inclusive Development Index (IDI), according to a World Economic Forum (WEF) report.
The ‘Inclusive Growth and Development Report 2017’, released in Davos on Monday, said that most countries were missing important opportunities to raise economic growth and reduce inequality at the same time because the growth model and measurement tools that have guided policy-makers for decades required significant readjustment.
India has been ranked 60th, below neighbouring China and Pakistan, according to the WEF report, carried by The Asian Age, an Indian newspaper.
Various Indian newspapers including The Hindu, Indian Express, Deccan Herald, Punjab Times and others carried the report, highlighting that India ranked below China and Pakistan in the IDI.
The index is based on 12 performance indicators. In order to provide a more complete measure of economic development than GDP growth alone, the index has three pillars — growth and development, inclusion and intergenerational equity, and sustainability
