Key Points
The top 5% of the urban Indian population spend 20,824 per month on their needs, nearly 10 times of what the persons in the bottom 5% spend ( 2,001), the new Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES) released by the statistics ministry showed..
On average, a rural person spent 3,773 per month in 2022-23, compared to 1,430 recorded in the 2011-12 survey..
Among non-food items, 7.6% of the entire monthly consumption expenditure in rural India and 8.6% in urban India was spent on conveyance..
A state-wise breakup of the expenditure habits among Indian households showed that Sikkims urban households were spending the most ( 7,731 per capita per month), followed by Chandigarh ( 7,467)..
Chhattisgarh with a per capita monthly spending of 4,483 in urban households and 2,466 in rural households was at the bottom of the list..
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