Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2019: Illuminating Inequalities
2019
This data publication developed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) offers data for 101 countries and 5.7 billion people, comparing acute multidimensional poverty at regional, national, and subnational levels using the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). The global MPI, developed by the OPHI in 2010, is one tool to comprehensively measure progress towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1, which aims to end poverty in all its forms and dimensions. It examines a person’s poverty and deprivations across 10 indicators in health, education and standard of living to identify who is poor and how they are poor. The MPI is disaggregated by age group and geographic area to show regional trends and patterns.
This year’s data and publication, “Illuminating Inequalities,” finds that across 101 countries, 23.1 percent of people are multidimensionally poor—half of whom are children under age 18. The publication also includes a detailed analysis of 10 selected countries: Peru, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Vietnam, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, and Haiti. The studies found that India and Cambodia reduced their MPI values the fastest, but for all 10 countries, deprivations declined faster among the poorest 40 percent of the population than among the total population.
Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2019: Illuminating Inequalities
Source:
Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2019: Illuminating Inequalities. United Nations Development Programme, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative 2019. http://hdr.undp.org/en/2019-MPI