Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2020

The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) measures the complexities of poor people’s lives, individually and collectively, each year. The 2020 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) data and publication “Charting pathways out of multidimensional poverty: Achieving the SDGs” has released on 16 July 2020 by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative at the University of Oxford and the Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Programme.

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020

Key-Points

The global MPI is a measure of acute multidimensional poverty. It measures the acute deprivations in health, education, and living standards that a person may face simultaneously.

The global MPI is composed of three dimensions (health, education, and living standards) and ten indicators. A person is identified as multidimensionally poor if they are deprived in at least one third of the weighted indicators.

2020 marks the ten year anniversary since the global MPI was first launched in partnership with the UNDP’s Human Development Report Office (HDRO).

Around 1.3 billion people are still living in multidimensional poverty.

Children show higher rates of multidimensional poverty. Half of multidimensionally poor people (644 million) are children under age 18. One in three children is poor compared with one in six adults.

About 84 % of multidimensionally poor people live in Sub-Saharan Africa (558 million) and South Asia (530 million).

Four countries halved their MPI value. India (2005/06–2015/16) did so nationally and among children and had the biggest reduction in the number of multidimensionally poor people (over 270 million).