UNDP: 1.1 billion people live in multidimensional poverty

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Multidimensional Poverty Report 2024, prepared together with the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), indicates that 1.1 billion people are affected by extreme poverty and of these, some 500 million are in conflict contexts.

UNDP and OPHI highlight that the poverty rate in “conflict-affected countries is three times higher than in countries without conflict.”

The research, covering 112 countries and 6.3 billion people, provides shocking data on poverty in countries with conflict and war.

Achim Steiner, UNDP Administrator, said: “Conflicts have intensified and multiplied in recent years, reaching new records in casualties, displacing millions of people and causing major disruption to their lives and livelihoods.”

Steiner believes that resources are needed to support these populations in extreme poverty “and access to specialized interventions in development and early recovery to break the cycle of poverty and crises,” particularly in countries at war.

In nations immersed in conflict, “more than one in four poor people do not have access to electricity, compared to just over one in twenty in more stable regions. Similar disparities are observed in areas such as early childhood education (17.7 % versus 4.4 %), nutrition (20.8% versus 7.2 %) and infant mortality (8 % versus 1.1 %),” the report details.

M.Pino

With information from the United Nations Development Program

(Reference image: Ian Talmacs in Unsplash)

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