On 2 November, the United Nations Development Report Office launched UNDP’s 2011 Human Development Report – “Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All” in Denmark with UNDP Administrator Helen Clark.
The 2011 HDR features updated Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) results for 109 countries and new analysis, including:
- Environmental poverty through the MPI lens
- Trends in MPI poverty over time for 7 countries
- Unmet need for family planning among the multidimensionally poor
- Figures for people vulnerable to poverty and living in severe poverty, by country
- Five new countries added to the total
- Twenty one countries updated with more recent MPI data
Updates to MPI 2011 data are available on OPHI’s MPI pages:
- Country profiles – MPI facts by country, as featured in the 2011 HDR
- Data tables – updated for 2011, as featured in the 2011 HDR
- Interactive map – explore MPI results by country
- About the MPI – read OPHI’s updated MPI pages
For more information on the 2011 Human Development Report and the complete press kit please visit: http://hdr.undp.org