Global MPI 2016

The 2016 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) covers 102 countries covering 75% of the world’s population. A total of 1.6 billion people are living in multidimensional poverty; about 30% of people in the countries analysed. Disaggregated analysis of the MPI is available for 962 sub-national regions. In 2016, OPHI focuses analysis on 46 countries in Africa, which are home to just over 1 billion people. Of these, 54% of the population, 544 million people, are multidimensionally poor.

Our briefings

In 2016, the global MPI results were explored in a series of briefing papers: 

Our data

Summer Data Tables

  • Data Tables 1.1-2.3
    Main MPI results, headcount ratio by dimensions, contribution of deprivations and other measures of poverty and wellbeing at the national level (102 countries)
  • Data Tables 3.1-4.3
    Multidimensional poverty, headcount ratio by dimension and contribution of deprivations in rural and urban areas (100 countries)
  • Data Tables 5.1-5.4
    Multidimensional poverty, headcount ratio by dimension and contribution of deprivations at the sub-national level (962 regions of 78 countries)
  • Data Tables 6.1-6.6
    Changes to MPI poverty over time, including annualised changes in headcount ratio and intensity, changes in each indicator at the national level and changes in destitution where available (50 countries)
  • Data Table 7
    The table presents an archive of all MPI estimations published since 2010. These are not harmonised for comparisons over time (for harmonised estimations see Table 6). Table 7 covers 232 estimations for 118 countries in 2016.
Summer Data Tables 1.1-2.3
Summer Data Tables 3.1-4.3
Summer Data Tables 5.1-5.4
Summer Data Tables 6.1-6.6
Summer Data Table 7

 

Winter Data Tables

  • Data Tables 1.1-2.3
    Main MPI results, headcount ratio by dimensions, contribution of deprivations and other measures of poverty and wellbeing at the national level (103 countries).
  • Data Tables 3.1-4.3
    Multidimensional poverty, headcount ratio by dimension and contribution of deprivations in rural and urban areas (101 countries)
  • Data Tables 5.1-5.4
    Multidimensional poverty, headcount ratio by dimension and contribution of deprivations at the sub-national level (962 regions of 77 countries)
  • Data Table 7
    The table presents an archive of all MPI estimations published since 2010. These are not harmonized for comparisons over time (for harmonized estimations see Table 6 from summer 2016 update). Table 7 covers 241 estimations for 119 countries in Winter 2016.
Winter Data Tables 1.1-2.3
Winter Data Tables 3.1-4.3
Winter Data Tables 5.1-5.4
Winter Data Table 7

Our Country Briefings

The global MPI Country Briefings present the country-specific results for the countries in this year’s global MPI. In 2016, we published Country Briefings in June and December. 

Documentation

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