GLOBAL MPI REPORT 2018

About: 

• The Global MPI 2018 Report is prepared by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative. 
  
  
• The report measures multidimensional poverty index (MPI), which can be broken down to show 
  • Who is poor: Poverty rate as a percentage of the population. 
    
    
  • How they are poor: Intensity as the average share of deprivations that poor people experience.
    
    
  
  
  
• The product of these two is MPI. If someone is deprived in a third or more of 10 weighted indicators, the global index identifies them as “MPI poor”.
  
  

Global findings:

• Worldwide 1.3 billion people live in multidimensional poverty in the 105 developing countries it covered.
  
  
• Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia together account for 83% of all multidimensionally poor.
  
  
• Children accounts for nearly half (49.9%) of the world’s poor.
  
  

Indian Scenario:

• India has reduced its poverty rate drastically from 55% to 28% in 10 years, with 271 million people moving out of poverty between 2005-06 and 2015-16.
  
  
• However, India still had 364 million poor in 2015-16, the largest for any country, although it is down from 635 million in 2005-06.
  
  
• Of the 364 million people who were MPI poor in 2015-16, 156 million (34.6%) were children.
  
  
• 50% of ST members were still poor in 2015-16.
  
  
• 31% of Muslims were still poor in 2015-16.
  
  
• Bihar was the poorest state in 2015-16, with more than half its population in poverty.
  
  
• The four poorest states —Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh — were still home to over half of all the MPI poor people in India.
  
  
• Jharkhand had the greatest improvement in reducing poverty.