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Most of India’s extremely poor can be found in Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Uttarakhand. India saw its most significant victories in the long war against poverty between 2004-05 and 2011-12. A net 137 million people, or 15% of the population, lifted themselves out of poverty, bringing down the national poverty rate to 22%. While the pace of poverty decline varied across states,there has been some level of convergence across states over the past few years, with no stark outliers anymore. However, the poor themselves are a diverse group, and not all states have done equally well in lifting people out of extreme poverty.