Consumption inequality decreased in both rural and urban areas during August 2023-July 2024 compared to the previous year, with Gini coeffi...

The Household Consumption Expenditure Survey 2022-23 indicates a notable increase in the proportion of income spent on paan, tobacco, and i...

The relative position of socially and financially backward groups especially SC and ST have not shown any improvement despite the various s...

Monthly per capita expenditure in urban Delhi is highest among all states, according to Delhi government's report on Household Consumer Exp...

Urban population in Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan lived on a monthly per capita expenditure lower than the national average.

Among various religious groups, Muslims have the lowest living standard with the average per capita expenditure of just Rs 32.66 in a day, ...

The monthly per capita expenditure (MPCE), which reflects purchasing power, has increased more in urban areas than in rural areas.

Poorest of poor in the country survive on barely Rs 17 per day in villages and Rs 23 a day in cities, as per the latest data.

Even if growth is 'inclusive' in the sense of being more towards the lower end, 'inequality' (depending on how we measure it) can increase.

This is much lower than the poverty line of Rs 28.65 per capita daily consumption in cities & Rs 22.42 in rural areas fixed by Planning Com...

About 60 per cent of India's rural population lives on less than Rs 35 a day and nearly as many in cities live on Rs 66 a day, reveals a go...

In reflection of growing economic prosperity, the Delhiites' per capita income of Rs 1.16 lakh in 2009-10 is highest in the country.

While average monthly per capita expenditure at Rs 1,053.64 in rural areas and Rs 1,984.46 in urban India in 2009-10, there exists a huge g...

Urban India is spending big on conveyance and communications, thanks to long hours of commuting and the telecom revolution.

Rising prices have pushed up average per capita monthly consumer spending on cereals between 2005-06 and 2006-07 across rural and urban cen...

A survey on spend list by the National Sample Survey Organisation has put Gujarat at the bottom of a 20-state list. Oil Inflation I All Hea...

The benefits of high economic growth have been unable to bridge the gap between urban and rural people in terms of spending capacity. India...