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The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Gujarat’s official Twitter account posted an infographic on July 20, 2022, alleging that India has surpassed Nigeria as the world’s capital of poverty.
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Another tweet by Satish Reddy, Chairman of Telangana State Renewable Energy Development Corporation, shared on July 18, 2022, also claimed that the India has overtook Nigeria as World’s Poverty Capital.
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According to the data provided by World Poverty Clock, about 83,068,597 Indians have been plunged into poverty in 2022, representing 6% of the country’s population.
As per the data available on World Poverty Clock, 11% of the nation’s population were living in poverty in 2016. The data showed a 3% reduction in 2018 and 2% of elevation in 2020.
While in 2020 the 10% of the total population were living in poverty in India, it got turned down to 6% in 2022.
According to the percentage Nigeria has a higher proportion of the world’s poverty than does India. The overall number of people living in poverty in Nigeria is 83,005,482, which makes 39% of the country’s population, as per the data from World Poverty Clock.
In both 2016 and 2018, 38% of Nigerians were living in poverty.
A rise in the percentage occurred in 2020 and 2022, bringing it to 39%.
The claim made by AAP Gujarat and Satish Reddy is misleading, according to our research. Nigeria has a higher ratio in poverty than India, in terms of percentages. While India’s poverty rate decreased in 2022, there was an increase of 1% in Nigeria.
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