Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) in India 2006 and 2021
As of 2021, approximately 16.4 percent of the Indian population were reportedly multidimensionally poor. This reflected a much lower percentage of multidimensionally poor population in India. In 2016, just over 55 percent of Indian population living in acute poverty. The global multidimensional poverty index 2022 covered 109 countries in developing regions, identifying 1.3 billion out of 5.9 billion people living in these countries as multidimensionally poor.
