Coming soon! Global MPI 2024 to launch on 17 October on theme of poverty and conflict
The 2024 update of the global Multidimensional Poverty Index will be published on 17th October on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
The global MPI offers a multidimensional counterpart to the World Bank’s $2.15 a day measure for extreme poverty and is published annually by OPHI and the Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Programme.
This year’s joint report entitled ‘Poverty amid conflict’ will explore some of the ways in which poverty and conflict intersect and reflects on what this means for poverty reduction.
The global MPI is an internationally comparable measure of acute multidimensional poverty across more than 100 countries in developing regions. Computation of the global MPI begins by constructing a deprivation profile for each household and person in it covering 10 indicators spanning health, education and standard of living. All dimensions are equally weighted, and all indicators are equally weighted within each dimension. A person’s deprivation score is the sum of the weighted deprivations she or he experiences and everyone whose deprivation score is one-third or more is poor by the global MPI.
The global MPI is reported nationally and for disaggregated groups, together with the incidence or percentage of the population who are poor, the average intensity of multidimensional poverty, and the share of the population who are poor and deprived in each of the 10 indicators. Data tables as well as the technical files to reproduce them are published with each annual release together with country briefings and an interactive databank.
A webinar showcasing the global MPI will take place in Thailand on 4 November with details to follow. Global MPI-related events will be posted in the events section of our website and on social media.
