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Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2025
October 25 , 2025
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- UNDP and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) released the Report titled “Overlapping Hardships: Poverty and Climate Hazards.”
- The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) measures acute poverty across health, education, and standard of living beyond income alone.
- The 2025 report covers 109 countries and finds 1.1 billion people, or 18.3 percent, live in acute multidimensional poverty.
- Nearly 43.6 percent of the poor, about 501 million people, experience severe poverty with deprivations in at least half of the MPI indicators.
- Children, making up 33.6 percent of the global population, represent 51 percent of all multidimensionally poor individuals.
- Middle-income countries house 740 million poor people, nearly two-thirds of the global poor population.
- About 80 percent of the poor live in regions exposed to climate hazards such as droughts, floods, or extreme heat, adding environmental risk to deprivation.
- India reduced multidimensional poverty from 55.1 percent in 2005-06 to 16.4 percent in 2019-21, lifting over 414 million people out of poverty.
- Nearly 99 percent of India’s poor live in climate-vulnerable regions exposed to heatwaves, floods, and pollution.
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