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Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2022 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2022; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2022 compilation covers 111 countries on 3 measures. Niger is highest, at 0.60128; Serbia is lowest, at 0.00043. The middle country reads 0.04954. Against the 2021 compilation, 108 values changed (3 up, 105 down), 3 countries joined, 1 left. 5 readings are more than ten years older than the file and are listed but not compared.

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Global Multidimensional Poverty Index · Latest available · compiled 2022

HighestNiger

0.60128

LowestSerbia

0.00043

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end. A higher value is the worse result.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2022 compilation, as published. OPHI ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 111 countries · select a heading to sort

Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2022 compilation: every country, as published by Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).
derived
1NigerNERWestern Africa · 2012 reading0.6012890.97166.0962012
2South SudanSSDEastern Africa · 2010 reading, too old to compare0.5801691.86363.1552010
3Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa · 2010 reading, too old to compare0.5234284.19262.1702010
4ChadTCDMiddle Africa · 2019 reading0.5170184.17561.4212019
5Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa · 2019 reading0.4613580.41457.3712018-2019
6MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa · 2011 reading, too old to compare0.4169673.13757.0112011
7BurundiBDIEastern Africa · 2017 reading0.4088675.09754.4442016-2017
8MadagascarMDGEastern Africa · 2018 reading0.3839769.07855.5852018
9MaliMLIWestern Africa · 2018 reading0.3760668.33255.0342018
10GuineaGINWestern Africa · 2018 reading0.3732266.21156.3682018
11BeninBENWestern Africa · 2018 reading0.3676766.79955.0422017-2018
12EthiopiaETHEastern Africa · 2019 reading0.3666068.73753.3342019
13Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa · 2019 reading0.3406964.39652.9052018-2019
14DR CongoCODMiddle Africa · 2018 reading0.3311964.51851.3332017-2018
15MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa · 2021 reading0.3270458.44855.9532019-2021
16Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa · 2019 reading0.2929059.22249.4582019
17TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa · 2016 reading0.2841857.06849.7972015-2016
18AngolaAGOMiddle Africa · 2016 reading0.2824451.10455.2672015-2016
19UgandaUGAEastern Africa · 2016 reading0.2810357.16849.1582016
20SudanSDNNorthern Africa · 2014 reading0.2794452.32853.4012014
21AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia · 2016 reading0.2717255.91048.6002015-2016
22Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia · 2018 reading0.2632956.62946.4942016-2018
23SenegalSENWestern Africa · 2019 reading0.2628650.83251.7122019
24LiberiaLBRWestern Africa · 2020 reading0.2592952.32349.5562019-2020
25NigeriaNGAWestern Africa · 2018 reading0.2543946.41754.8052018

02In Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2022 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure. Readings too old to compare take no part.

Highest

  1. 1Niger0.60128
  2. 4Chad0.51701
  3. 5Central African Republic0.46135
  4. 7Burundi0.40886
  5. 8Madagascar0.38397

Lowest

  1. 111Serbia0.00043
  2. 110Armenia0.00069
  3. 109Ukraine0.00084
  4. 108Turkmenistan0.00085
  5. 107Georgia0.00124

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.04954. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Population in poverty (%)

    HighestNiger90.971

    LowestSerbia0.114

    Middle country: 11.844

  • Intensity of deprivation (%)

    HighestNiger66.096

    LowestArgentina33.986

    Middle country: 41.977

032021 → 2022

Since the 2021 compilation

What changed between the 2021 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +3 / −1countries joined / left
  • 108values changed, of 108 in both
  • 3 · 105rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Mauritania0.26064 → 0.32704+0.06639
  • Mexico0.02562 → 0.02805+0.00244
  • Peru0.02919 → 0.02922+0.00003

Fell most

  • India0.12265 → 0.06881−0.05384
  • Honduras0.09306 → 0.05115−0.04190
  • Rwanda0.25860 → 0.23100−0.02759
  • Malawi0.25233 → 0.23110−0.02123
  • Vietnam0.01933 → 0.00773−0.01160
+ Argentina+ Tuvalu+ Samoa− Syria

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • Readings from many years

    Each country’s newest reading as of 2022, from 2010 to 2021. 5 are more than ten years older than the file: listed and marked, but left out of the ends and the changes.

  • The position is ours

    OPHI publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the worse result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 111 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: Public domain. No conditions at all. Crediting the publisher is still the courteous thing to do.

Cite this edition

Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) (2022). Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2022 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/global-mpi/2022

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07Questions

Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2022 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Multidimensional Poverty Index in Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2022 compilation?

Niger, at 0.60128, of the 111 countries in the file.

How many countries does Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2022 compilation cover?

111.

Where can I download Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2022 compilation?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2022 compilation the newest?

No. The newest held here is Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2025 compilation.

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