This update of the Guatemala MPI (IPM-Gt) published in June 2025 was produced by the Ministry of Social Development (MIDES) in collaboration with the Institute National Statistics (INE), the Planning Secretariat of the Presidency (SEGEPLAN) and the Ministry of Public Finance (MINFIN). The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) provided technical support. The MPI was calculated using data from the National Survey of Living Conditions 2023 (ENCOVI 2023) and is based on the original MPI structure, which examines 17 indicators grouped within 5 dimensions (Food and Nutritional Health and Safety, Education, Decent Employment, Housing and Basic Services).

• Citation: MIDES. (2023). Pobreza multidimensional en Guatemala: Actualización del IPM-Gt con datos de la ENCOVI 2023. Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala.
• Visit the website for the Índice de Pobreza Multidimensional – IPM Gt for further materials. 

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). 

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

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
• Website for the Índice de Pobreza Multidimensional – IPM GT 

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
• 17 June 2025 | El Ministerio de Desarrollo Social presenta la actualización del Índice de Pobreza Multidimensional -IPM Gt (source is here; accessible version forthcoming)

Voluntary National Reviews  

• 2017 | Agenda 2030 para el desarrollo sostenible Examen nacional voluntario, 2017 GUATEMALA pp.58-9
• 2019 | Revision Nacional Voluntaria 2019 pp. 85-6, 113