Children under 18 sharing half of world’s poor count
Friday - September 21, 2018 1:01 pm ,
Category : WTN SPECIAL
According to Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) released by UNDP and OPHI
In India 271 million people moved out of poverty between 2005 to 2015.
Poverty rate fall from 55 percent to 28 percent over the ten-year period
Poverty is like an epidemic spread all over the world and worst effected regions are south Asian and African countries. But the recent report revealed a bitter truth of poverty that in total head count of poor in world, half are younger than 18 years of age, according to estimates from the 2018 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).
This index shows positive signs in context of scenario of poverty in India, report says that India is the first country for which progress over time has been estimated, 271 million people moved out of poverty between 2005-06 and 2015-16. The poverty rate there has nearly halved, falling from 55 percent to 28 percent over the ten-year period.
“Although the level of poverty – particularly in children – is staggering so is the progress that can be made in tackling it. In India alone some 271 million have escaped multidimensional poverty in just ten years,” according to UNDP Administrator.
Half of the world's 1.3 billion poor people are children, according to Multidemensional Poverty Index just released by @UNDP: https://t.co/I9qKtlJyVS #GlobalGoals pic.twitter.com/CD6T2bxKnq
— United Nations (@UN) September 20, 2018
Recent facts and figure of report shows that in 104 primarily low and middle-income countries, 662 million children are considered multidimensional poor. In 35 countries half of all children are poor.
The MPI includes parameters beyond income to know how people living in poverty in multiple ways. Three major parameters of health, education and living standards are so far than basic this necessary for living like clean water, sanitation, adequate nutrition or primary education.
Some 1.3 billion people live in multidimensional poverty, which is almost a quarter of the population of the 104 countries for which the 2018 MPI is calculated. Of these 1.3 billion, almost half - 46 percent - are thought to be living in severe poverty and are deprived in at least half of the dimensions covered in the MPI.
