Pakistan Becomes Majority Middle Class Country

[VCheng]

Well it does seem ridiculous that $2 would put you in middle class status. I can't see how anybody could justify that number even if it has some kind of relation to median income.

Read the report itself and see for yourself how it is being twisted into being something good when in fact it is not much.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Read the report itself and see for yourself how it is being twisted into being something good when in fact it is not much.

"From 2002 to 2011, the country's middle class, defined as households with daily per capita expenditures of $2-$10 in 2005 purchasing power parity dollars, grew from 32% to 55% of the population"

$2-$10 per day.......

 

[VCheng]

"From 2002 to 2011, the country's middle class, defined as households with daily per capita expenditures of $2-$10 in 2005 purchasing power parity dollars, grew from 32% to 55% of the population"

$2-$10 per day.......

.... for an entire household.

There are threads on PDF outlining minimum budgets for a family for survival and it is hard to reconcile those figures with these numbers. Middle class indeed.

Edit: Here is one thread:

Pakistan minimum wage increased from Rs 10,000 to Rs 12,000.

Question: So the minimum wage is about $4 per day. How can that be twice the lower limit of entering the Middle Class? Something is not correct here.