According to the report of World Bank, more than 50 per cent poor persons in India live in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa. Jharkhand has made the fastest leap in bringing down the number of poor among fellow Indian states and has reduced the incidence of multidimensional poverty from 74.9 per cent to 46.5 per cent in the decade ending in 2016 . Jharkhand showed the steepest decline in the poor populace which was once second only to Bihar's in However, it still remains one of the poorest Indian states with more than half of India's poor populace concentrated in Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh.