It turns out that what I spend on coffee alone would put me in the upper middle class in India:
Nearly 80 percent of India lives on half dollar a day
Seventy-seven percent of Indians — about 836 million people — live on less than half a dollar a day in one of the world’s hottest economies, a government report said.
ADVERTISEMENTThe state-run National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganized Sector (NCEUS) said most of those living on below 20 rupees (50 US cents) per day were from the informal labor sector with no job or social security, living in abject poverty.