Of the 1.3 billion people who are multidimensionally poor, more than two-thirds of them—886 million—live in middle-income countries.
The traditional concept of poverty is outdated, according to a new report released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).
New data demonstrate more clearly than ever that labeling countries - or even households - as rich and poor is an oversimplification. Findings from the 2019 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) shed light on disparities in how people experience poverty, revealing vast inequalities among countries and among the poor themselves.
“To fight poverty, one needs to know where poor people live. They are not evenly spread across a country, not even within a household,” says Achim Steiner, UNDP Administrator. “The 2019 global Multidimensional Poverty Index provides the detailed information policy makers need to more effectively target their policies.”
The MPI goes beyond income as the sole indicator for poverty by exploring the ways in which people experience poverty in their health, education, and living standards. This year’s MPI results show that more than two-thirds of the multidimensionally poor—886 million people—live in middle-income countries.
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