5. • Lack of basic human needs like
food, clean water, shelter, clothes etc
ABSOLUTE POVERTY
• Inability to maintain the living
standards customary in the society.
RELATIVE POVERTY
6. 23.9 %
57.35 %
65.3 %
68.7 %
76.5 %
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Srilanka Nepal Pakistan India Bangladesh
POVERTY RATE IN SOUTH ASIA
7. According to a World Bank report entitled World
Development Indicators (WDI) 2013
Sixty percent of Pakistan's population is living in
poverty.
The international poverty line is $2 a day or an
income Rs 200 per day.
The report shows that 21 percent of Pakistan's
population lives below $1.25 per day i.e. Rs 135 per
day.