Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) report on multidimensional Poor

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Oxford Poverty and human development initiative (OPHI) has released its report on multidimensional poor.
According to this report about 31% of the world’s “multidimensionally poor” children live in India

What is multidimensionally poor child?

A “multidimensionally poor” child is one who lacks at least one-third of ten indicators, grouped into three dimensions of poverty: health, education and standard of living.
The health dimension comprises indicators such as nutrition, child mortality, and education. Under standard of living are indicators such as access to cooking fuel, improved sanitation, safe drinking water, electricity, flooring, and asset ownership.

Highlights of the report:

In this report India ranked first in term of total number of multidimensional poor(31%).
India is followed by Nigeria (8%), Ethiopia (7%) and Pakistan (6%).
In terms of the number of multidimensionally poor children as a proportion of the total population, India stood 37th among 103 countries. Out of India’s 217 million (21.7 crore) children, 49.9% were multidimensionally poor.
Nearly 50% of the children in 103 countries were multidimensionally poor.
Of the 1.45 billion (145 crore) people (from the 103 countries) who are multidimensionally poor; 48% are children.
87% of the multidimensionally poor children lived in South Asia (44%) and Sub-Saharan Africa (43%). In Ethiopia, Niger, and South Sudan, over 90 % of the children are MPI poor.
As for the intensity of poverty, the average percentage of deprivation in terms of the 10 MPI categories was highest in Sub-Saharan Africa, where multidimensionally poor children were “simultaneously deprived” in 58% of the indicators. Sub-Saharan Africa was followed by the region described as the Arab States (53%). South Asia occupied the third spot, with children deprived in 49% of the MPI indicators.

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