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Poverty Ratios (percentage of population below the poverty line)

No	Year	Poverty Line (Rs.)		Poverty ratios as per official methodology (%)			Poverty ratios as per expert group methodology (%)
No	Year	Rural	Urban	Rural	Urban	Combined	Rural	Urban	Combined
1	1972-73	41	47	54.1	41.2	51.5	-	-	-
2	1973-74	49.63	56.96	-	-	-	56.4	49.0	54.9
3	1977-78	60.60	69.90	51.2	38.2	48.3	53.1	45.2	51.3
4	1983-84	101.80	117.50	40.4	28.1	37.4	45.7	40.8	44.5
5	1987-88	131.80	152.10	33.4	20.1	29.9	39.1	38.2	38.9
6	1988-89	N.A.	N.A.	22.5	14.2	20.4	39.2	38.4	39.0
7	1989-90	N.A.	N.A.	20.3	13.3	18.5	33.7	36.0	34.3
8	1990-91	N.A.	N.A.	19.7	10.8	17.4	35.0	37.0	35.6
9	1991-92	N.A.	N.A.	20.5	12.9	18.5	40.0	37.6	39.4
10	1992-93	N.A.	N.A.	22.9	13.0	20.3	41.7	37.8	40.7
11	1993-94	N.A.	N.A.	19.9	13.2	18.1	37.3	32.4	36.0
12	1994-95	N.A.	N.A.	19.3	9.5	16.6	40.7	36.6	39.6

Comparative figure on Official Methodology & Expert Group Methodology are based on Table 3.1 on Trends in Incidence of poverty 1987-88 to 1994-95 published in Draft Mid-Term Appraisal of the Eighth Five Year Plan 1992-97,(Sept 1996) p. 60

Figures based on Press Information Bureau Note on Estimates of Poverty, dated 11th March 1997 Annexure I to V Poverty Line with base 1973-74 for different years were reported to be as follows:

			Year	Rural	Urban
			1973-74	49.63	56.96
			1977-78	56.64	72.5
			1983	89.45	117.64
			1987-88	115.43	165.58

Source: Report of the Expert Group on 'Estimation of Proportion and Number of Poor', July 1993, pp.60

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