2nd Edition of National Multidimensional Poverty Index
July 20 , 2023
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- NITI Aayog released a Report ‘National Multidimensional Poverty Index: A Progress Review 2023’.
- India has registered a significant decline of 9.89 percentage points in the number of multidimensionally poor.
- It falls from 24.85% in 2015-16 to 14.96% in 2019-2021.
- It claims that about 13.5 crore people came out of multidimensional poverty during the period.
- Rural areas witnessed the fastest decline in poverty from 32.59% to 19.28%.
- Delhi, Kerala, Goa and Tamil Nadu have the least number of people facing multidimensional poverty along with the Union Territories.
- Bihar, Jharkhand, Meghalaya, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh have the percentage of total population who are multidimensionally poor is high.
- Multidimensional poverty in urban areas saw a decrease from 8.65% to 5.27%.
- Uttar Pradesh registered the largest decline in number of poor with 3.43 crore people escaping multidimensional poverty.
- Between 2015-16 and 2019-21, the MPI value has nearly halved from 0.117 to 0.066 and the intensity of poverty has reduced from 47% to 44%.
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