India is not Sub Saharan Africa poor but has ~20% of their population living in poverty which they define as something like 50 cents a day. This is a bit of a

India is not Sub Saharan Africa poor but has ~20% of their population living in poverty which they define as something like 50 cents a day. This is a bit of a numbers/definition game. I don't know if there's an official definition of poor but if over half of the population lacks indoor plumbing and makes only a few dollars a day, I'd say most people in the 1st world would call it a poor country.