>The greatest gains in poverty reduction have come in China and India, which, together, have lifted just short of 1 billion people out of poverty. As per wikip

>The greatest gains in poverty reduction have come in China and India, which, together, have lifted just short of 1 billion people out of poverty. As per wikipedia[1],still a long way to go world had 872.3 million people below the new poverty line, of which 179.6 million people lived in India. In other words, India with 17.5% of total world's population, had 20.6% share of world's poorest in 2011 [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_India