2 Even the top 20% earn less than a lakh per year

The LASI report gives a quintile-wise (bottom to top 20%) distribution on income statistics. It shows that even the top 20% of households earn less than ₹1 lakh per annum per capita. The bottom 20% of households earn just ₹25,825 per year per capita.

LASI also gives quintile-wise per capita incomes for different professions. It shows that intra-class income inequality is the largest among non-agricultural businesses and the self-employed, while it is the smallest among those employed in agriculture. This is a trend which holds for caste-wise and rural-urban inequality as well.