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. 2021 Jan 4;155(1):187–210. doi: 10.1007/s11205-020-02596-1

Table 2.

Category-wise and time horizon-wise poverty and vulnerability.

Source: Household Income Expenditure Survey-2016, Own calculations

National (%) Rural (%) Urban (%)
Categories of poverty
Chronically food poor(CP) 11.07 12.62 7.51
Transient food poor(TP) 24.42 25.63 21.66
Total food poor (TFP-HH wise) 35.49 38.25 29.17
Food poverty gap (FPG) 8.99 9.8 7.11
Squared food poverty gap (SFPG) 3 3.3 2.3
Categories of Vulnerability
Highly vulnerable food non-poor (HVNFP) 9.03 9.64 7.63
High vulnerability to food poverty (HVP) 24.36 26.63 19.16
Total vulnerable to poverty (TP) 44.52 47.89 36.8
Time Horizon-wise
Vulnerability to food-poverty in year 2 39.91 42.63 33.68
Vulnerability to food-poverty in year 3 48.65 51.44 42.26