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Global Multidimensional Poverty Index

8 editions, 2018–2025 · 109 countries · 3 measures

The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index counts poverty as overlapping deprivations in health, education and living standards rather than as a shortfall of income. Oxford’s OPHI computes it as the share of people who are poor multiplied by how intensely they are deprived — both stored here beside it.

This site holds every edition from 2018 to 2025, read from OPHI’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Newest
Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2025 compilation
Held
8 editions · 864 rows
Licence
Public domain or CC0

018 editions

Every edition

Newest first. Each opens the full table for that edition, and each downloads as a CSV.

2018bar height: countries covered, up to 1122025
Every edition of Global Multidimensional Poverty Index held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
EditionCountriesChangeReadDownload
Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2025 compilationNewest109+3 −6September 6, 2026CSV
Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2024 compilation112+2September 6, 2026CSV
Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2023 compilation110+2 −3September 6, 2026CSV
Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2022 compilation111+3 −1September 6, 2026CSV
Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2021 compilation109+2September 6, 2026CSV
Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2020 compilation107+7 −1September 6, 2026CSV
Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2019 compilation101−4September 6, 2026CSV
Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2018 compilation105—September 6, 2026CSV

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: global-mpi-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

026 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

MPI (0–1)is built fromPopulation in poverty (%)Intensity of deprivation (%)

Every column in the newest file of Global Multidimensional Poverty Index: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2025DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1090
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1090
MPI (0–1)mpiHeadlineThe headline figure: MPI (0–1).Number · up to 16 decimals0.00043Serbia0.51701Chadmiddle 0.038601090
Population in poverty (%)headcount_ratioPart of the headlineShare of people who are multidimensionally poor, deprived in at least a third of the weighted health, education and living-standard indicators, in %.Number · up to 17 decimals0.114Serbia84.175Chadmiddle 9.7931090
Intensity of deprivation (%)intensityPart of the headlineAverage share of the weighted indicators in which poor people are deprived, in %: how deep their poverty runs.Number · up to 15 decimals33.986Argentina61.421Chadmiddle 41.9761090
Survey yearsurvey_yearReading yearThe year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side.Year—220

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.

03119 countries across every edition

Who is covered

How many countries each edition holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions
Countries in each edition of Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, by continent.
20182019202020212022202320242025
Africa4846484848464747
Americas2020212223232320
Asia2927292928282930
Europe77777774
Oceania11235668
All105101107109111110112109

Who joined and who left

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method
  1. 1 · Publisher

    Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI)

  2. 2 · Their file

    Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2025

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 6, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
  4. 4 · Stored as

    8 files, one per edition

    Each downloads as a CSV, or every edition together as global-mpi-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

Precision

The headline is stored to 16 decimals, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

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.

From OPHI’s published Global MPI tables, survey year included as its own column because many are two-year fieldwork periods.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 5, 2026

Public domain

  • Share and redistribute it
  • Adapt it and build on it
  • Use it commercially

No conditions at all. Crediting the publisher is still the courteous thing to do.

In plain words

OPHI publishes the national results for reuse with a citation, and no licence restricts commercial use or adaptation.

A credit line

Source: Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI). Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2018–2025 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/global-mpi

The publisher’s own citation: Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative and UNDP. Global Multidimensional Poverty Index. Oxford: University of Oxford.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Questions

Global Multidimensional Poverty Index: questions and answers

What is the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index?

The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index counts poverty as overlapping deprivations in health, education and living standards rather than as a shortfall of income. Oxford’s OPHI computes it as the share of people who are poor multiplied by how intensely they are deprived — both stored here beside it.

Which editions of the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index can I download?

All 8, from 2018 to 2025, each as a CSV file, or every edition together in one CSV.

Does OPHI rank countries on it?

No. OPHI publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under Public domain, with credit to OPHI. The licence text is linked on this page.

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