2024 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)

The 2024 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report, jointly published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), provides a comprehensive analysis of poverty across 112 countries.

Acute Poverty: The report finds that 1.1 billion people live in acute multidimensional poverty out of a global population of 6.3 billion.

Conflict and Poverty: The report highlights that 455 million people living in poverty are in conflict-affected settings.

MPI Value of South Asian countries: 

India: 0.105 MPI value, with 234 million people living in multidimensional poverty. 

Pakistan: 0.198 MPI value, with 93 million people living in poverty.

Nepal: 0.092 MPI value, with about 7.5 million people living in poverty. Bangladesh: 0.104 MPI value, with 41.7 million people living in poverty.

Case Study: The report includes an in-depth case study on Afghanistan, where 5.3 million more people fell into multidimensional poverty during the turbulent period from 2015/16 to 2022/23.