>The greatest gains in poverty reduction have come in China and India, which, together, have lifted just short of 1 billion people out of poverty.
As per wikipedia[1],still a long way to go
world had 872.3 million people below the new poverty line, of which 179.6 million people lived in India. In other words, India with 17.5% of total world's population, had 20.6% share of world's poorest in 2011