Multidimensional poverty index: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) 1

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) 1. What is the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)? MPI measures poverty beyond income, capturing deprivations in health, education, and living standards to inform targeted policy interventions. 2. Which indicators are used to compute the MPI? Ten indicators across Health (Nutrition, Child Mortality), Education (Years of Schooling, School Attendance), and Standard of Living (Cooking Fuel, Sanitation, Drinking Water, Electricity, Housing, Assets). 3 ... Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) Global Multidimensional Poverty Index is a measure of multidimensional poverty covering 107 developing countries. It was first developed in 2010 by Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for UNDP’s Human Development Reports. Global MPI uses three dimensions and ten indicators. All indicators are equally weighted within each dimension. The MPI ranges from 0 to 1, and higher values ... The 2024 global MPI measures multidimensional poverty in 112 countries, covering 6.3 billion people, using the most recent comparable data. It also examines the intersection of poverty and conflict, and provides disaggregated results by age, area, gender and subnational regions. NEARLY eight in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty —or 887 million of the 1.1 billion globally—are directly exposed to climate hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, drought, or air ...