Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2020

The 2020 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) was released on 16 July 2020 by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Key findings

  • 65 out of 75 countries studied significantly reduced their multidimensional poverty levels between 2000 and 2019.
  • Sierra Leone made the fastest progress in reducing their global MPI value mostly during the Ebola Pandemic (2013-17).
  • India saw the most people moving out of multidimensional poverty – some 270 million people between 2005-6 and 2015-16.
  • 70 million people in China left multidimensional poverty between 2010 and 2014. In Bangladesh, numbers declined by 19 ....
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