>ulk of the people do not make anything like Rs. 19.6
>er head per year.
This annual per capita income may be compared
vith those of other countries:
U.S.A. 1406
U.K. 980
Germany 603
Japan 218
British India 65
There is again the factor of inequality of income,
[n 1931-32 the income of British India, classified under
the head of Rural and Urban is shown in the following
table:
Description, Total income Income per Income per
(in millions of Rs.) earner (Rs.) capita. (Rs.)
Rural 12,250 142 51
Urban 4,928 436 166
Inequality of income, therefore, fluctuates very
widely in this country. "If we take the urban classes,
nearly one-half of their total income belongs to less
than one-tenth of their total number. Inequality of
income is present in at least equally great measure
also among the agricultural classes."
A factual survey of income figures collected from
50 villages revealed a per capita income of Rs. 14 per
annum. A survey of over 600 villages in C.P. dis-
closed a per capita income of Rs. 12 per annum.
So that for a large mass of people inhabiting coun-
tryside, a per capita income estimate of Rs. 12 to 20
would be in accord with facts.
The annual per capita income of U.K. was esti-
mated in 1930 at £76. In India £5 would be a very
liberal figure.
There has been no improvement in the last decade.
The population of India has grown to 400 millions. The
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