India lifted 271 mn people out of poverty between FY06-16: UN report

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  India lifted 271 mn people out of poverty between FY06-16: UN report

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Key point -  

1. About 273 million Indians moved out of multidimensional poverty between 2005-6 and 2015-16, according to a UN report, which noted that India has recorded the largest reduction in the number of people living in this category.
2. Multidimensional poverty encompasses the various deprivations experienced by poor people in their daily lives such as poor health, lack of education, inadequate living standards, poor quality of work, the threat of violence, and living in areas that are environmentally hazardous, among others.

The UN report – 

1. The data shows that 65 out of 75 countries studied significantly reduced their multidimensional poverty levels between 2000 and 2019.
2. Of the 65 countries that reduced their Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) value, 50 also reduced the number of people living in poverty.
3. The largest reduction was in India, where approximately 273 million people moved out of multidimensional poverty over 10 years.
4. Four countries – Armenia, India, Nicaragua and North Macedonia – halved their global MPIT value and did so in 5.5-10.5 years.
5. These countries show what is possible for countries with very different initial poverty levels. They account for roughly a fifth of the world's population, mostly because of India's large population.
6. The report additionally notes that India and Nicaragua's time periods cover 10 and 10.5 years respectively, and during that time both countries halved their MPIT values among children.
7. The data shows that across 107 developing countries, 1.3 billion people, 22 per cent, live in multidimensional poverty. The data also reveals that the burden of multidimensional poverty disproportionately falls on children.
8. Half of the 1.3 billion poor (644 million) have not yet turned 18, while 107 million are 60 or older, a particularly important figure during the Covid-19 pandemic.
9. About 84.3 per cent of multidimensionally poor people live in Sub-Saharan Africa.
10. 10 countries account for 60 per cent of unvaccinated children, and 40 per cent of children unvaccinated for DTP3 live in just four countries: Nigeria, India, Pakistan and Indonesia.
11. The report stressed that while the new figures released show that before the Covid-19 pandemic hit, progress was being made in tackling multidimensional poverty, but that progress is now at risk.

Other countries:

1. Fourteen countries reduced multidimensional poverty in all their subnational regions: Bangladesh, Bolivia, the Kingdom of Eswatini, Gabon, Gambia, Guyana, India, Liberia, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nicaragua, Nepal and Rwanda.

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