The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2024: harmonised level estimates and their changes over time

This Database provides estimates of the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) an international measure of acute poverty. More specifically, it contains harmonised level estimates and their changes over time of the global MPI and related sub-indices, which have been estimated for the 2024 release. For this Database all deprivation indicators have been harmonised over time.

The Database covers estimates for 86 countries and 863 subnational regions. 40 of the 86 countries have trends for two points in time, while poverty trends in 36 countries are based on three points in time. Six countries (Benin, Eswatini, Nigeria, Philippines, Tanzania, and Thailand) have results for four points in time, three countries (Ghana, Mexico and Peru) for five time periods and Nepal have trends for six time periods. The estimates are based on 233 individual survey datasets, mostly the Demographic Health Survey (DHS) and the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS). The Database is organised in two results files, one for level estimates and one for change estimates. Both results files are each provided in Stata format (dta) and comma separated values (csv). This repository also contains the computer script files to extract and clean the micro data for replication purposes (i.e. the Stata do-files).