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Bihar (India) 1807
Expenditure class
Percentage of
population
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Total
15.24
4.85
16.18
6.68
8.52
10.39
8.91
11.21
9.89
8.13
100
Average monthly
expenditure per capita
(in rupees)
0.68
0.83
0.88
0.97
1.03
1.42
1.56
2.06
2.64
4.45
1.58
Income in terms of per
capita mean
0.43
0.53
0.56
0.61
0.65
0.90
0.99
1.30
1.67
2.82
1
Income distribution data: A household census survey was made by a British official
(Hamilton) of Patna city and 16 rural districts in the region surrounding it, all of which
we take to be representative of Bihar. He recorded family size and monthly family
expenditures in rupees. The data are summarized by ten income groups, approximate
deciles (Martin 1838).
Population and area: Population of 3,362,280 and area in km2 from Martin (1838).
Urbanization rate: We use the rate for India (Jean-François Bergier and Jon Mathieu
2002: Table 1, 9-12% for 1800, based on Bairoch 1985 and Chandler 1987).
Mean income in $PPP: 1820 GDP per capita in 1990 international dollars (Maddison
2001: 264).
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Chandler, Tertoius (1987), Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth, The Edwin Mellen
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Bergier, Jean-François and Jon Mathieu (2002), “The Mountains in Urban Development:
Introduction,” paper presented at the IEHA XIII World Congress, Buenos Aires,
July 22-26, 2002.
Maddison, Angus (2001), The World Economy: A Millennial Perspectives, Paris: OECD
Development Centre.
Martin, Robert M. (1838), The history, antiquities, topography, and statistics of eastern
India. Surveyed under the orders of the supreme government, and collated from
the original documents at the E.I. house, London: W. H. Allen and Co.