What is the global Multidimensional Poverty Index?

The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) measures the complexities of poor people’s lives, individually and collectively, each year. This report focuses on how multidimensional poverty has declined.

How many children are poor in the world?

One in three children is poor compared with one in six adults. About 84.3 percent of multidimensionally poor people live in Sub-Saharan Africa (558 million) and South Asia (530 million).

What is the difference between rural and urban poverty in Africa?

In Sub-Saharan Africa 71.9 percent of people in rural areas (466 million people) are multidimensionally poor compared with 25.2 percent (92 million people) in urban areas. In South Asia 37.6 percent of people in rural areas (465 million people) are multidimensionally poor compared with 11.3 percent (65 million people) in urban areas.

What is ididc’s global datasphere?

IDC’s Global DataSphere measures the amount of data created and consumed in the world each year. The ratio of unique data (created and captured) to replicated data (copied and consumed) is roughly 1:9, but the trend is a slow migration toward less unique and more replicated data.

What is the latest edition of World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators database 2019?

World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database 2019 (23rd Edition/June 2019) Released July 2019 The World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators database on USB key and online contains time series data for the years 1960, 1965, 1970 and annually from 1975 to 2018 for more than 180 telecommunication/ICT statistics…

Should poverty indicators be determined by deprivation?

Although it might seem preferable to determine multidimensional poverty based on deprivation in any indicator, previous MPIs have found considerable abnormalities in using only one deprivation, partly because of cultural and climactic diversity, and partly because the scale of these deprivations varies widely.