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Multi-Dimensional Poverty Index 2022
October 22 , 2022
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- The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2022 was released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).
Key Highlights
- 1.2 billion people are multidimensionally poor.
- Nearly half of them live in severe poverty.
- Half of poor people (593 million) are children under age 18
- The number of poor people is highest in Sub Saharan Africa (579 million), followed by South Asia (385 million).
- The two regions together are home to 83% of poor people.
- India has managed to pull out 415 million people from poverty in the last 15 years.
- 22.8 crore in India still multi-dimensionally poor, of whom 9.7 crore are children.
- India is followed by Nigeria with 9.6 crore.
- Two-thirds of these Indian people live in a household in which at least one person is deprived of nutrition.
- The incidence of poverty fell from 55.1% in 2005/06 to 16.4% in 2019/21 in the country.
- As many as 41.5 crore people moved out of poverty in India during the 15-year period between 2005-06 and 2019-21.
- South Asia now has not the lowest number of poor people than Sub-Saharan Africa.
- The relative reduction from 2015/2016 to 2019/21 was faster - 11.9% a year compared with 8.1% from 2005/2006 to 2015/2016.
- Bihar, the poorest state in 2015-16, saw the fastest reduction in MPI value in absolute terms.
- Of the 10 poorest states in 2015/2016, only one (West Bengal) have emerged out of the list in 2019-21.
- Across states and union territories in India, the fastest reduction in relative terms was in Goa
- It is followed by Jammu and Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan.
- The incidence of poverty fell from 36.6% in 2015-2016 to 21.2% in 2019-2021 in rural areas and from 9.0% to 5.5% in urban areas.
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