In February 2021, the National Statistics and Information Authority (NSIA) presented unpublished results of the Afghanistan Multidimensional Poverty Index (A-MPI) 2020, at the United Nations Statistics Commission, and also discussed the trends in the A-MPI since 2016/17. 

In 2022, OPHI and the Islamic Development Bank Institute (IsDBI) published a policy report based on the 2020 MPI which drew on data from the 2020 Afghanistan Income Expenditure and Labour Force Survey. 

• Citation: IsDBI & OPHI (2022). Multidimensional Poverty in Afghanistan: Policy-oriented Report using the 2020 Afghanistan Income Expenditure and Labour Force Survey. IsDBI–OPHI Briefs No. 7, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and IsDBI (Islamic Development Bank Institute), Oxford, UK
• 25 February 2021 | Intervention by Hasibullah Mowahed, Deputy Director General, National Statistics and Information Authority, Afghanistan at UNSC 52 Side Event

The National Statistics and Information Authority (NSIA) of Afghanistan in collaboration with OPHI published the Multidimensional Poverty Report Index 2016–2017 in March 2019. It presented the first official, Afghanistan Multidimensional Poverty Index (A-MPI) to help policy makers in Afghanistan coordinate poverty reduction programmes.

• Citation: National Statistics and Information Authority (2019). Afghanistan Multidimensional Poverty Index 2016–2017. NSIA, Kabul

Poverty Cut-Off: A person is considered poor if they are deprived in 40% or more of the 18 weighted indicators.

The annual global MPI produced by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative in partnership with the Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Programme is an internationally comparable index of acute multidimensional poverty. OPHI publishes Country Briefings summarising poverty statistics of the global MPI for each country. 

Visit the most recent Global MPI Country Briefing for Afghanistan based on MICS year 2022-2023. 

Official institution responsible for statistics

• National Statistics and Information Authority (NSIA) of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

Events

• 25 February 2021 | Intervention by Hasibullah Mowahed, Deputy Director General, National Statistics and Information Authority, Afghanistan at UNSC 52 Side Event
• Intervention by H.E. Ashraf Ghani, President of Afghanistan at UNGA 75 Side Event 

Dimensions articles

• 4 August 2020 | Stanley Gwavuya | 'How the pandemic will aggravate multidimensional poverty in Afghanistan'
• 15 August 2019 | Abdul Alim | 'The Insights From a Comparable Child Poverty Measurement: The Case of South Asia'  

Press Releases/News

• 31 March 2019 | Launch of Afghanistan MPI
• 31 March 2019 | New Afghan Multidimensional Poverty Report