The report features an in-depth case study on Afghanistan, where 5.3 million additional people fell into multidimensional poverty between 2015-16 and 2022-3. In the aftermath of the conflict, between ...

New York, 17 October 2025 – Nearly 8 in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty – 887 million out of 1.1 billion globally – are directly exposed to climate hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, ...

The UN estimated that 18 percent of the world's population lives in acute multidimensional poverty, meaning they are deprived of adequate housing, sanitation, water, food, electricity, basic ...

Multidimensional poverty measurement has transformed our understanding of deprivation by moving beyond income-based metrics to capture the intersecting deficiencies in health, education, living ...

Different poverty index reports about the Nigerian situation have been published periodically by the Breton Woods organizations, UN agencies, economic groups and even individual tink tank groups. At ...

This seminar, as part of the Poverty & Equity Global Practice’s series on identifying a research agenda for welfare measurement led by the Global Solutions Group on Data For Policy, will focus on a ...

5 September - Around the world, over 800 million people live in extreme poverty and 1.1 billion people are still living in multidimensional poverty. As part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable ...

Ghana has reduced poverty to 21.9% in Q3 2025, with over 300,000 people escaping deprivation, according to a report released by GSS on January 21, 2026.

About 273 million Indians moved out of multidimensional poverty between 2005-6 and 2015-16, according to a UN report, which noted that India has recorded the largest reduction in the number of people ...

For years, Ghana’s housing debate has revolved around one headline figure: a national shortage commonly estimated at about 1.8 million homes. The number is useful. It signals that housing supply has ...

Nearly 8 in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty—887 million out of 1.1 billion globally—are directly exposed to climate hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, drought, or air pollution.