Nilgiri
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That's okay by me. As far as our middle class remain more wealthy
For income levels and median household income of middle class read this.
http://www.riazhaq.com/2015/03/comparing-median-incomes-of-bangladesh.html?m=1
Actually that will be surpassed by India soon if not already (if you look at the credit suisse growth in mean wealth per person in the last 10 - 20 years).
So using 2010 data like it really means something now is not ideal given the pace at which India is growing and expanding compared to Pakistan. India's middle class inflection point is going to be around 2017 according to EIU....whereas Pakistan will be 2024.
Wealth is just one measure. Ideally one would measure middle class by a mix of wealth and income per person in both mean and median.....in a quad composite index. But no one has done this and the data is quite variable (given its survey based for a large part) and also the definitions vary.
Thats why its also easy for me to find sources that put India middle class way larger and wealthier than Pakistan by % and you can do the reverse if you try (but its getting harder as the overall momentum from India pushes all the studies and definitions to its "side" but Pakistan will probably balance it soon afterwards as it reaches its inflexion point).
Anyways I personally think both countries are on the right track and are ahead of Bangladesh by a large way in middle class metrics and also poverty metrics. India can certainly learn from Pakistan on absolute poverty, sanitation....just like it can learn from Bangladesh on life expectancy and basic health coverage.
In fact later I plan to do a positive comparison series on where everybody stands on fundamental basics using the World Bank database and others....and discuss which countries can learn from the other. I will tag you guys there when I do it.