MULTI-DIMENSIONAL
POVERTY INDEX - REPORTS AND INDICES
News: NITI Aayog report says 13.5-cr.
people lifted out of multidimensional poverty
What's
in the news?
● Recently,
NITI Aayog has released the second edition of the National multidimensional poverty index: a progress review, 2023”.
Key takeaways from the study:
● The
number of multidimensionally poor reduced
from 24.85% in 2015-16 to 14.96% in 2019-2020.
● Nearly
13.5 crore people came out of
multidimensional poverty.
● Between
2015-16 and 2019-21, the MPI value has nearly halved from 0.117 to 0.066 and
the intensity of poverty has reduced from 47% to 44%.
Multidimensional
poverty in rural areas:
● Rural
areas witnessed the fastest decline in
poverty from 32.59% to 19.28%.
● States
with the largest reduction in the number of poor are Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, and Rajasthan.
● Delhi,
Kerala, Goa, and Tamil Nadu have the least number of people facing
multidimensional poverty.
● Bihar,
Jharkhand, Meghalaya, Uttar Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh top the chart where the
percentage of population which is multidimensionally poor is high.
Multidimensional
poverty in urban areas:
● Multidimensional
poverty in urban areas, during the same period, saw a decrease from 8.65% to 5.27%.
● Uttar Pradesh registered the largest
decline in the number of poor with 3.43 crore people escaping
multidimensional poverty.
National
Multidimensional Poverty Index:
● The
MPI seeks to measure poverty across its multiple dimensions and in effect
complements existing poverty statistics based on per capita consumption
expenditure.
● This
baseline report of the national MPI measure is based on the reference period of 2015-16 of the National
Family Health Survey (NFHS-4).
● The
first edition was released in 2015-16.
Partners
in index preparation:
● Niti
Aayog
● United
Nations Development Programme
● Oxford
poverty and human development initiative
Dimensions:
|
Dimension |
Indicators |
|
Health |
●
Nutrition ●
Child and adolescent mortality ●
Maternal health |
|
Education |
●
Years of schooling ●
School attendance |
|
Standard of
living |
●
Cooking fuel ●
Sanitation ●
Bank account ●
Drinking water ●
Electricity ●
Assets ●
Housing |