“United Nations Multidimensional Poverty Index – 2020”

India recorded the largest reduction in people living in poverty between 2015 & 19

• The United Nations recently released the Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2020
• According to the index, India recorded the largest reduction in number of people
  living in poverty between the period 2015 & 19
• 101 countries studied — 31 low income, 68 middle income and 2 high income – 1.3
  billion people are “multidimensionally poor”

Key findings from the report

• The report identifies 10 countries, with a combined population of around 2 billion
  people, to illustrate the level of poverty reduction, and all of them have shown
  statistically significant progress towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal
• The 10 countries are Bangladesh, Cambodia, Democratic Republic of Congo,
  Ethiopia, Haiti, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru and Vietnam
• In India, there were 271 million fewer people in poverty in 2016 than in 2006, while
  in Bangladesh the number dropped by 19 million between 2004 and 2014
• The report noted that of the 10 selected countries for which changes over time were
  analyzed, India and Cambodia reduced their MPI values the fastest — and they did not
  leave the poorest groups behind
• Ethiopia, India and Peru significantly reduced deprivations in all 10 indicators,
  namely nutrition, sanitation, child mortality, drinking water, years of schooling,
  electricity, school attendance, housing, cooking fuel and assets
• The report also showed that children suffer poverty more intensely than adults and
  are more likely to be deprived in all 10 of the MPI indicators, lacking essentials such
  as clean water, sanitation, adequate nutrition or primary education
• Child poverty fell markedly faster than adult poverty in Bangladesh, Cambodia,
  Haiti, India and Peru. But children fell further behind in Ethiopia, and their
  progress—together with that of adults—stalled in Democratic Republic of the Congo
  and Pakistan
• Globally, of the 1.3 billion people who are multidimensionally poor, more than twothirds of them—886 million— now live in middle-income countries. A further 440
  million live in low-income countries

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