The Nigeria Multidimensional Poverty Index (2022) report uses data from the Multidimensional Poverty Index Survey 2021/2022, the most extensive multidimensional poverty survey in Nigeria to date, designed to provide nationally representative results from all 36 states, FCT Abuja and 109 Senatorial Districts. The MPI survey was carried out between November 2021 and February 2022 and included variables designed to capture a more detailed picture of multidimensional poverty in Nigeria. The Nigeria MPI (2022) includes a linked Child MPI which analyses poverty for children under the age of 5. 

• Citation: NBS Nigeria (2022). Nigeria Multidimensional Poverty Index (2022), National Bureau of Statistics of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, FCT Abuja.
• NBS Nigeria (2022). 2021 Nigeria's Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) Statistical Snapshots (2022)

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) published the first national MPI for Nigeria as part of the National Human Development Report 2018 focusing on advancing development in Northeast Nigeria. The MPI had a structure of 11 indicators grouped within 4 dimensions and was based on the 2017 Human Development Indices Survey. 

• Poverty Cut-Off Nigeria MPI 2022: A person is considered poor if they are deprived in 26% or more of the 15 weighted indicators.  
• Poverty Cut-Off Nigeria Child MPI 2022: A child under 5 is considered poor if they are deprived in 21% or more of the 23 weighted indicators. 
• Background: The Nigeria MPI 2022 updates the structure of the Nigeria MPI 2018 following consultations with stakeholder groups that identified the need for additional indicators to reflect the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the need to highlight child poverty. 

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 Nigeria based on MICS year 2021.  

Official institution responsible for statistics  

• National Bureau of Statistics 

Additional materials  

• Nigeria Poverty Map 
• National Human Development Report 2018: Nigeria | Human Development Reports (undp.org)

Events  

• 24 September 2013 | Intervention by Yemi Kale, Statistician General, National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria at UNGA 68 Side Event
• 5 March 2019 | Intervention by Yemi Kale, Statistician General, National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria at UNSC 50 Side Event
• 25 September 2019 | Intervention by H.E. Hajiya Sadiya Umar Faruk, Minister for Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development at UNGA 74 Side Event
• 15 February 2022 | Intervention by Simon Harry, Statistician-General, National Bureau of Statistics at UNSC 53 Side Event
• 23 September 2022 | Intervention by H.E. Prince Clem Ikanade Agba, Minister of State, Budget and National Planning at UNGA 77 (Nigeria hosted this event) 
• 23 September 2022 | Intervention by H.E. Muhammadu Buhari GCFR, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria represented by Her Excellency, Dr Zainab Ahmed, Honourable Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, at UNGA 77 (Nigeria hosted this event) 
• 23 September 2022 | Intervention by H.E. Prince Adeyemi Adeniran, Statistician General, National Bureau of Statistics, at UNGA 77 (Nigeria hosted this event)
• 28 February 2023 | Intervention by Prince Adeyemi Adeniran, Statistician General, National Bureau of Statistics at UNSC 54 Side Event   

Press Releases/News  

• 17 November 2022 | Nigeria launches its most extensive national measure of multidimensional poverty. 
• 17 November 2022 | Nigeria launches its most extensive national measure of multidimensional poverty | MPPN
• 6 November 2018 | National Multidimensional Poverty Index for Nigeria | MPPN

VNRs   

• June 2020 | Nigeria Integration of the SDGs into National Development Planning: A Second Voluntary National Review, p51