 Using the $3.20 per day poverty line, the percentage of the population living in poverty in India (2011) was 60%.This means that 763 million people in India were living below this poverty line in 2011.Other measures such as the semi-economic Multi-dimensional Poverty Index (MPI), which places 33% weight on education and number of schooling years in its definition of poverty, and places 6.25% weight on income and assets owned, suggests there were 650 million people (53.7% of population) living in MPI-poverty in India.