Multidimensional Poverty Measure

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: multidimensional-poverty-measure-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Multidimensional poverty headcount ratio (%)is built fromDeprived: below $3.00 a day, 2021 PPP (%)Deprived: educational attainment (%)Deprived: educational enrollment (%)Deprived: electricity (%)Deprived: sanitation (%)Deprived: drinking water (%)

Every column in the newest file of Multidimensional Poverty Measure: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2025	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	158	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	158	0
Multidimensional poverty headcount ratio (%)multidimensional_povertyHeadline	The headline figure: Multidimensional poverty headcount ratio (%).	Number · up to 5 decimals	0.000002 share it87.95612DR Congomiddle 4.25179	157	0
Deprived: below $3.00 a day, 2021 PPP (%)monetaryPart of the headline	Share of people living on less than $3.00 a day at 2021 purchasing power parities, in %.	Number · up to 5 decimals	0.00006 share it85.3177DR Congomiddle 2.4618	153	0
Deprived: educational attainment (%)educational_attainmentPart of the headline	Share of people in households where no adult of school-completion age has finished primary education, in %.	Number · up to 5 decimals	0.000007 share it67.10126Nigermiddle 3.41691	151	1
Deprived: educational enrollment (%)educational_enrollmentPart of the headline	Share of people in households with a school-age child who is not enrolled in school, in %.	Number · up to 5 decimals	0.00003 share it62.1999South Sudanmiddle 4.2543	118	38
Deprived: electricity (%)electricityPart of the headline	Share of people in households without access to electricity, in %.	Number · up to 5 decimals	0.000045 share it90.5685Burundimiddle 1.6401	112	2
Deprived: sanitation (%)sanitationPart of the headline	Share of people in households without access to even limited-standard sanitation, in %.	Number · up to 5 decimals	0.00010 share it92.876Sudanmiddle 14.106	123	26
Deprived: drinking water (%)drinking_waterPart of the headline	Share of people in households without access to even limited-standard drinking water, in %.	Number · up to 6 decimals	0.00024 share it88.258São Tomé and Príncipemiddle 4.654	124	11
Survey measureswelfare_typeGrouping	Whether the household survey behind the figure measured income or consumption; the two are different yardsticks and consumption usually reads lower.	Text	—	2	0
Survey yearsurvey_yearReading year	The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side.	Year	—	17	0

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.

One edition, covering 158 countries.

Not in this dataset · 67 places this site covers

World Bank Group gives no figure for these in any edition held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

AfghanistanAlgeriaAmerican SamoaAndorraAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaAzerbaijanBahamasBahrainBermudaBosnia and HerzegovinaBritish Virgin IslandsBruneiCambodiaCanadaCayman IslandsCentral African RepublicChannel IslandsChinaCook IslandsCubaCuraçaoDominicaEritreaFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGuamGuyanaHong KongIsle of ManKuwaitLibyaLiechtensteinMacauMonacoMontserratNew CaledoniaNew ZealandNiueNorth KoreaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsOmanPalauPuerto RicoQatarSaint Kitts and NevisSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSan MarinoSaudi ArabiaSingaporeSint MaartenSomaliaSomalilandSyriaTrinidad and TobagoTurkmenistanTurks and Caicos IslandsUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican CityVenezuela

1. 1 · Publisher

   World Bank Group

   worldbank.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Multidimensional Poverty Measure 2025

   MPM_SM26_All.xlsx

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 29, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   1 file, one per edition

   It downloads as a CSV: multidimensional-poverty-measure-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/multidimensional-poverty-measure

From the World Bank’s own workbook of every survey year it has computed, rather than its indicator API, which rounds the same figure to one decimal. Each country’s newest survey is taken, and the six deprivation rates are stored beside the headline.

• Charted

  Multidimensional Poverty Measure by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Poverty & Inequality
  • Development & Human Capital

• Near neighbours

  • Gini IndexWorld Bank Group · 22 held · 2002–2023
  • Poverty Gap at $3.00 a DayWorld Bank Group · 22 held · 2002–2023
  • Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy DietFAO · 9 held · 2017–2025