Distribution of households below poverty line in India 2019-2020, by quantile
As of August 2020, 25 percent of Indian households in the fourth quantile, the highest quintile of pre-COVID-19 consumption, had to live below the poverty line after the pandemic. Meanwhile, the share of households in the second quintile soared from 32 percent to 60 percent in August 2020 within the span of only one year.