Amartya Sen is 92 years old as of October 2026. He was born on 3 November 1933.
Indian economist and philosopher who showed how famines happen and won the Nobel Prize in economics in 1998
Did you know?He was given his name, which means immortal, by the famous Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore.
Quick facts
Date of birth3 November 1933
Age92
NationalityIndian
BirthplaceSantiniketan, India
Occupationeconomist, university teacher, philosopher
Editor's Take:
Amartya Sen changed how economists think about poverty and famine. He grew up in Santiniketan, at the school founded by Rabindranath Tagore, who chose his name. As a boy he witnessed the Bengal famine of 1943. His research showed that famines often happen even when food is available, because people lose the means to buy it. He argued that democracies rarely suffer famines. His ideas helped create the UN's Human Development Index. He won the Nobel Prize in economics in 1998. He has taught at Cambridge, Oxford and Harvard.
Amartya Kumar Sen (Bengali:; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher. Sen has taught and worked in England and the United States since 1972.
