Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere

This goal witnessed improvement by 12 points from 2020-21 (SDG India Index 3) to 2023-24 (SDG India Index 4), advancing from Performer to Front Runner category.

Multidimensional poverty nearly halved from 24.8% to 14.96% between 2015-16 and 2019-21.

Multidimensional poverty for 2022-23 further likely dropped to 11.28%, with 24.8 crore people moving out of multidimensional poverty between 2013-14 and 2022-23.

99.7% were offered employment of the persons demanding employment under MGNREGA in 2023–2024.

95.4% households live in pucca/ semi-pucca houses as per NFHS-5 (2019-21).

41% of households have at least one member covered under health insurance or health scheme as per NFHS-5 (2019-21), an improvement from 28.7% in NFHS -4 (2015-16).