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Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2024
October 23 , 2024
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- The latest update of the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) was released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative.
- According to the UN report, 1.1 billion people, over half of them minors, live in acute poverty worldwide.
- India has 234 million people living in poverty, which is the medium Human Development Index.
- India is among the five countries globally with the largest number of people living in poverty.
- The other four countries are Pakistan (93 million), Ethiopia (86 million), Nigeria (74 million) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (66 million), all low HDI.
- These five countries account for 48.1% of the global poor.
- The report notes that over half of the 1.1 billion poor people are children under the age of 18 (584 million).
- Globally, 27.9 per cent of children live in poverty, compared with 13.5 per cent of adults.
- In South Asia 272 million poor people live in households with at least one undernourished person, and in Sub- Saharan Africa 256 million.
- About 83.7 per cent of poor people live in rural areas.
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