We all have serious misconceptions about the income distribution in India. I ran a survey last week and compared the answers with real data
Check out the survey here: forms.gle/noyd9GPMeY2Yya…
The gaps between perception and reality are stunning. A thread with some highlights
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What's the average household monthly income of the top 1% of the country? Most people think its ₹5L or more.
Reality: it is 85k.
88% of you are in the top 0.5% of the country, and almost none of you know this fact /2
The average monthly household income in India is 22k. For a family of 4.7 members.
People in metros don't realize this because, in the metros, we don’t really have the “rest of India”. 87% of all the people living in metros are from the top 40%. We never meet the bottom 60%. /3
Speaking of metros vs rest-of-India: In metros, 78% of households with loans have home-loans. For all of India, that number is just 18%
Agricultural loans are the #1 reason for loans in Bharat. The #2 reason is "log kya kahenge" (loans for weddings and other family functions) /4
What fraction of India uses firewood for cooking? Check out this graph. /5
For more details, other surprising statistics, sources of data, and more see the rest of my analysis:
futureiq.substack.com/p/misconceptio… /6
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