On 26 November 2019, the Government of Guatemala officially presented the Guatemala MPI developed by the Ministry of Social Development with technical assistance from OPHI and support from the European Union. The Guatemala MPI 2019 is based on data from the National Survey of Living Conditions 2014 (ENCOVI 2014). 

• Visit MIDES website for a range of materials
• MIDES (2019). IPM-Gt: Índice de Pobreza Multidimensional

Poverty Cut-Off: A person is considered poor if they are deprived in 30% or more of the 17 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 Guatemala based on DHS year 2014-2015.

Official institution responsible for multidimensional poverty statistics  

• MIDES Ministry of Social Development

Events

• 25 September 2018 | Intervention by H.E. Carlos Velasquez Monge, Minister of Social Development at UNGA 73

Press Releases/News:  

• 9 June 2017 | Guatemala will develop a National Multidimensional Poverty Index
• 26 November 2019 | Gobierno de Guatemala oficializa creación del Índice de Pobreza Multidimensional -IPM Gt- – Ministerio de Desarrollo Social de Guatemala (mides.gob.gt) 
• December 2019 | OPHI E-Update December 2019 

VNRs   

• Agenda 2030 para el desarrollo sostenible Examen nacional voluntario, 2017 GUATEMALA