10 per cent of the people earn 56 per cent of the total national income of the country.

India is a country of poverty and extreme inequality. World Inequality Report 2022 Why india is a country of inequality, 10 per cent of the people earn 56 per cent of the country's total national income. 

The lower 50 per cent of the population earns only 13 per cent of the country's income.

The report also points out that global earnings have fallen sharply over the past year due to the Corona epidemic. 

The income of rich countries has decreased by half and that of the relatively poor countries has decreased by half. This is because of the extreme effects of South and Southeast Asia. Especially in India.

The report was compiled by Lucas Chancellor, economist and co-chair of the World Inequality Lab, and economists Thomas Piketty, Emanuel Sayez and Gabriel Zukman. 

The report clearly states that 10 per cent of the country's top rich earn 56 per cent of India's gross national income. The lower 50 per cent, that is, the poor and lower-middle class, have to live on 13 percent of the country's total income.

According to the report, the middle class in india is absolutely poor. Their average wealth is only 6 lakh 23 thousand 930 rupees which are only 29.5 per cent of the total income of the country. In comparison, the top 10 per cent of the country and the top 1 per cent of India's 85 per cent and 33 per cent earn.

The average annual income of an adult indian in 2021 is 2 lakh 4 thousand 200 rupees. 

And the top 10 per cent earns twenty times as much. Which averages more than 11 lakh rupees.

According to a recent report by the Policy Commission, one out of every four people in india falls into this category in the Multidimensional Poverty Index. 

Bihar has the highest population (51.91 per cent of the total population of the state) in the extremely poor category. It is followed by jharkhand (42.17 per cent) and Uttar Pradesh (38.69 per cent).