2024 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)

This 2024 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report overlays violent conflict data with multidimensional poverty data to better understand their interlinkages across countries and over time. The Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) is the primary data source, but sensitivity analyses were also run using other key conflict datasets. The report finds that MPI values tend to be much higher in conflict-affected settings. And in countries affected by protracted conflict, poverty reduction is reversed, stagnant or slower.

This year’s update of the global MPI database includes new data from 20 countries. It presents MPI data from 112 countries covering 1,359 subnational regions. The results show that 1.1 billion of 6.3 billion people live in acute multidimensional poverty, over half of them children. Common deprivations include a lack of adequate housing, sanitation, electricity, cooking fuel, nutrition and school attendance. Reaching the last mile to eliminate global poverty requires careful attention to people living in contexts of violent conflict.

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Key Findings (2024, across 112 countries)

1.1b

People live in Multidimensional Poverty

1.1 billion out of 6.3 billion people across 112 countries live in multidimensional poverty.

455m

Poor people live in countries exposed to violent conflict

Nearly 40% of the 1.1 billion poor (455 million) live in countries exposed to violent conflict, hindering and even reversing hard-won progress to reduce poverty.

584m

Poor people are children under 18

Over half of the 1.1 billion poor (584 million) people are children under the age of 18.

76

Countries reduced poverty

Of 86 countries with harmonized data, 76 significantly reduced poverty according to the MPI value in at least one time period.

MPI Indicators

Dimensions of Poverty	Indicator	Deprived if living in the household where…	Weight
Health	Nutrition	Any adult under 70 years of age or any child for whom there is nutritional information is undernourished.	1/6
Health	Child mortality	Any child under the age of 18 years has died in the family in the five-year period preceding the survey.	1/6
Education	Years of schooling	No household member aged ‘school entrance age + six years or older has completed at least six years of schooling.	1/6
Education	School attendance	Any school-aged child is not attending school up to the age at which he/she would complete class eight.	1/6
Standard of living	Cooking Fuel	The household cooks with dung, wood, charcoal or coal.	1/18
	Sanitation	The household’s sanitation facility is not improved (according to SDG guidelines) or it is improved but shared with other households.	1/18
	Drinking Water	The household does not have access to improved drinking water (according to SDG guidelines) or improved drinking water is at least a 30-minute walk from home, round trip.	1/18
	Electricity	The household has no electricity.	1/18
	Housing	At least one of the three housing materials for roof, walls and floor are inadequate: the floor is of natural materials and/or the roof and/or walls are of natural or rudimentary materials.	1/18
	Assets	The household does not own more than one of these assets: radio, television, telephone, computer, animal cart, bicycle, motorbike or refrigerator, and does not own a car or truck.	1/18