UNDP Releases 2021 Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) Report

The 2021 Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) Report was released on 7 October 2021. The report is produced jointly by UNDP and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).
The report provides an estimates on multidimensional poverty across 109 developing countries (with data from surveys ranging 2009-2019/2020); These include 26 low-income countries, 80 middle-income countries and 3 high-income countries
The index measures each person’s deprivations across 10 indicators divided into three equally weighted dimensions.

The indicators and dimensions includes:

Key Finding of the 2021 Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) Report

The finding is based across 109 countries and 5.9 billion people. of this, 1.3 billion people are multidimensionally poor (or 21.7%)
About half (644 million) are children under age 18.
About 8.2 percent (105 million) are age 60 or older.
Nearly 85 percent live in Sub-Saharan Africa (556 million) or South Asia (532 million).
84 percent (1.1 billion) live in rural areas, and 16 percent (about 209 million) live in urban areas.
More than 67 percent live in middle-income countries.
In India, five out of six multidimensionally poor people were from lower tribes or castes.

Source: UNDP