The Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) released the first Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report for Uganda in July 2022. The report was produced in partnership with OPHI and UNDP. The Ugandan MPI is based on the 2016/17 and 2019/20 Uganda National Household Surveys and aims to broaden the measurement of poverty in Uganda, to Leave No One Behind, and achieve Sustainable Development Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere. It will be used to design and monitor the country’s plans and programmes, as a complement to monetary poverty measures.

• Citation: Uganda Bureau of Statistics (2022). Multidimensional Poverty Index for Uganda. Kampala: UBOS.

Poverty Cut-Off: A household is considered poor if they are deprived in 40% or more of the 12 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 Uganda based on DHS year 2016.  

Official institution responsible for statistics  

• Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) 

Events

• 7 March 2017 | Intervention by Ben Paul Mungyereza, Executive Director, Bureau of Statistics at UNSC 48 Side Event
• 7 March 2018 | Intervention by Ben Paul Mungyereza, Executive Director, Bureau of Statistics at UNSC 49 Side Event
• 5 March 2019 | Intervention by Imelda Madgalene Atai, Acting Executive Director, Uganda Bureau of Statistics
• 5 March 2020 | Intervention by Uganda Bureau of Statistics at UNSC 51 Side Event

VNRs

• 2020 VNR | https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/26352VNR_2020_Uganda_Report.pdf