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The dimensions, indicators, deprivation thresholds and weights of the Global MPI
Dimension |
Indicator |
Deprived if… |
Related to… |
Relative Weight |
Education |
Years of Schooling |
No household member has completed five years of schooling. |
MDG2 |
1/6 |
Child School Attendance |
Any school-aged child is not attending school up to class 8. |
MDG2 |
1/6 |
Health |
Child Mortality |
Any child has died in the family. |
MDG4 |
1/6 |
Nutrition |
Any adult or child for whom there is nutritional information is malnourished.* |
MDG1 |
1/6 |
Living Standard |
Electricity |
The household has no electricity. |
|
1/18 |
Improved Sanitation |
The household’s sanitation facility is not improved (according to MDG guidelines), or it is improved but shared with other households.** |
MDG7 |
1/18 |
Safe Drinking Water |
The household does not have access to safe drinking water (according to MDG guidelines) or safe drinking water is more than a 30-minute walk from home, roundtrip.*** |
MDG7 |
1/18 |
Flooring |
The household has a dirt, sand or dung floor. |
|
1/18 |
Cooking Fuel |
The household cooks with dung, wood or charcoal. |
MDG7 |
1/18 |
Assets |
The household does not own more than one radio, TV, telephone, bike, motorbike or refrigerator and does not own a car or truck. |
MDG7 |
1/18 |
The more extreme indicators of destitution: deprivation thresholds of those who are both MPI poor and destitute
Dimension |
Indicator |
Deprived if… |
Related to… |
Relative Weight |
Education |
Years of schooling |
No household member has completed at least one year of schooling (>=1). |
MDG2 |
1/6 |
Child School Attendance |
No child is attending school up to the age at which they should finish class 6. |
MDG2 |
1/6 |
Health |
Child Mortality |
2 or more children have died in the household. |
MDG4 |
1/6 |
Nutrition |
Severe undernourishment of any adult (BMI<17kg/m2) or any child
(-3 standard deviations from the median). |
MDG1 |
1/6 |
Living Standard |
Electricity |
The household has no electricity (no change). |
|
1/18 |
Improved Sanitation |
There is no facility (open defecation). |
MDG7 |
1/18 |
Safe Drinking Water |
The household does not have access to safe drinking water, or safe water is more than a 45-minute walk (round trip). |
MDG7 |
1/18 |
Flooring |
The household has a dirt, sand, or dung floor (no change). |
|
1/18 |
Cooking Fuel |
The household cooks with dung or wood (coal/lignite/charcoal are now non-deprived). |
MDG7 |
1/18 |
Assets |
The household has no assets (radio, mobile phone etc.) and no car. |
MDG7 |
1/18 |
Global MPI
The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) is an international measure of acute poverty covering over 100 developing countries. It complements traditional income-based poverty measures by capturing the deprivations that each person faces at the same time with respect to education, health and living standards.
