The 2024 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) uses the most recent comparable data available for 112 countries—21 low-income countries, 87 middle-income countries and 4 high-income countries. These countries are home to 6.3 billion people, about 92 percent of the population in developing regions, and of these 1.1 billion people are poor. Global MPI values, incidence and intensity of poverty, and component indicators are disaggregated for 1,359 subnational regions as well as by age group, rural-urban area and gender of the household head. In Table 6, we publish harmonised estimates for 86 countries, which provide results for trends over time. Forty have harmonized data for two points in time, 36 countries have trends data for three points in time, six have data for four points in time, three (Ghana, Mexico and Peru) have data for five points in time and Nepal has trends data for six points in time.

The 2024 global MPI report Poverty amid conflict is produced in partnership with OPHI and the Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Our analysis takes what we know about poverty around the world today and overlays violent conflict data where some form of conflict or fragility existed in the year the household surveys were taken to better understand how poor people are affected by violent conflicts. The report examines some of the ways in which poverty and conflict intersect and reflects on what this means for poverty reduction. Overall, the findings clearly point to the urgent need for peace. 

Citation: OPHI (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative) and UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) (2024). Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2024: Poverty amid conflict. United Nations Development Programme and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative.

The 2024 global MPI results are presented in eight Data Tables. Data Table 1 presents MPI country (national) results using the most recent DHS, MICS and national survey data from 112 countries, covering 6.3 billion people. The country (national) estimates are jointly produced by OPHI and UNDP’s Human Development Report Office (HDRO). Please refer to OPHI MPI Methodological Note 58 for the core methodology and country specifications.

In addition, the OPHI team produces an additional set of Data Tables (Tables 2–8). These include selected auxiliary statistics, including standard errors of key estimates. Data Table 2 presents estimations for multiple poverty cut-offs as a measure of robustness. The MPI and its partial indices are also disaggregated by several different population groups: age groups (Data Table 3), rural and urban areas (Data Table 4), subnational regions (Data Table 5) and gender of household head (Data Table 7). The disaggregated MPI results shared in these tables show the importance of going beyond national averages to identify important variations across population groups. Please refer to OPHI MPI Methodological Note 59 for OPHI’s disaggregation methodology and policies.

Data Table 6 presents trends over time in 86 countries using data from 2001 to 2023. Data Table 6 also contains disaggregated results of the extent to which poverty has changed over time for age groups, rural and urban areas, and for 863 subnational regions. Please refer to OPHI MPI Methodological Note 60 for trends over time methodology and country harmonisation details. 

Finally, Data Table 8 presents all global MPI country (national) results published since 2010.