Global Multidimensional Poverty Index

Key Findings:

• It said that 25 countries, including India, successfully halved their global MPI values within 15 years, showing that rapid progress is attainable.
• The report noted that deprivation in all indicators declined in India.
• The poorest States and groups, including children and people in disadvantaged caste groups, had the fastest absolute progress.
• In India those people who are multidimensionally poor and deprived under the nutrition indicator have declined.
• Children under the age of 18 account for half of MPI-poor people (566 million).
• The poverty rate among children is 27.7%, while among adults, it is 13.4%. 
• Countries halved their MPI in periods as short as four to 12 years.

Key facts about Global Multidimensional Poverty Index

• It was developed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).
• It was first launched in 2010.
• It constructs a deprivation profile of each household and person through 10 indicators spanning health, education and standard of living and includes both incidence as well as intensity of poverty.