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Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2023 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2023; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2023 compilation covers 110 countries on 3 measures. Chad is highest, at 0.51701; Serbia is lowest, at 0.00043. The middle country reads 0.04954. Against the 2022 compilation, 24 values changed (8 up, 16 down), 2 countries joined, 3 left. 10 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 2023

HighestChad

0.51701

LowestSerbia

0.00043

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2023 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 110 countries · select a heading to sort

Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2023 compilation: every country, as published by Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).
derived
1NigerNERWestern Africa · 2012 reading, too old to compare0.6012890.97166.0962012
2ChadTCDMiddle Africa · 2019 reading0.5170184.17561.4212019
3Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa · 2019 reading0.4613580.41457.3712018-2019
4BurundiBDIEastern Africa · 2017 reading0.4088675.09754.4442016-2017
5MadagascarMDGEastern Africa · 2021 reading0.3859368.41956.4072021
6MaliMLIWestern Africa · 2018 reading0.3760668.33255.0342018
7GuineaGINWestern Africa · 2018 reading0.3732266.21156.3682018
8MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa · 2020 reading0.3715661.93359.9942019-2020
9BeninBENWestern Africa · 2018 reading0.3676766.79955.0422017-2018
10EthiopiaETHEastern Africa · 2019 reading0.3666068.73753.3342019
11Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa · 2019 reading0.3406964.39652.9052018-2019
12DR CongoCODMiddle Africa · 2018 reading0.3311964.51851.3332017-2018
13MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa · 2021 reading0.3270458.44855.9532019-2021
14Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa · 2019 reading0.2929059.22249.4582019
15TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa · 2016 reading0.2841857.06849.7972015-2016
16AngolaAGOMiddle Africa · 2016 reading0.2824451.10455.2672015-2016
17UgandaUGAEastern Africa · 2016 reading0.2810357.16849.1582016
18SudanSDNNorthern Africa · 2014 reading0.2794452.32853.4012014
19AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia · 2016 reading0.2717255.91048.6002015-2016
20Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia · 2018 reading0.2632956.62946.4942016-2018
21SenegalSENWestern Africa · 2019 reading0.2628650.83251.7122019
22LiberiaLBRWestern Africa · 2020 reading0.2592952.32349.5562019-2020
23YemenYEMWestern Asia · 2013 reading0.2451748.46650.5852013
24Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa · 2016 reading0.2358746.06751.2012016
25CameroonCMRMiddle Africa · 2018 reading0.2320643.59253.2352018

02In Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2023 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. 2Chad0.51701
  2. 3Central African Republic0.46135
  3. 4Burundi0.40886
  4. 5Madagascar0.38593
  5. 6Mali0.37606

Lowest

  1. 110Serbia0.00043
  2. 109Armenia0.00069
  3. 107Turkmenistan0.00085
  4. 106Georgia0.00124
  5. 105North Macedonia0.00142

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 (%)

    HighestChad84.175

    LowestSerbia0.114

    Middle country: 11.844

  • Intensity of deprivation (%)

    HighestChad61.421

    LowestArgentina33.986

    Middle country: 41.977

032022 → 2023

Since the 2022 compilation

What changed between the 2022 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −3countries joined / left
  • 24values changed, of 108 in both
  • 8 · 16rose · fell
  • 84unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Cambodia0.17035 → 0.07037−0.09998
  • Nigeria0.25439 → 0.17482−0.07957
  • Mozambique0.41696 → 0.37156−0.04539
  • Mexico0.02805 → 0.01649−0.01156
  • Peru0.02922 → 0.02580−0.00342
+ Fiji+ Uzbekistan− Burkina Faso− Bhutan− South Sudan

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.

How values are stored

  • Readings from many years

    Each country’s newest reading as of 2023, from 2011 to 2022. 10 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 is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 110 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 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) (2023). Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2023 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/global-mpi/2023

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07Questions

Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2023 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Multidimensional Poverty Index in Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2023 compilation?

Chad, at 0.51701, of the 110 countries in the file.

How many countries does Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2023 compilation cover?

110.

Where can I download Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2023 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, 2023 compilation the newest?

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

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