World Bank · Poverty
Multidimensional poverty index
Proportion of the population that is multidimensionally poor adjusted by the intensity of the deprivations
- Coverage
- 30 of 238 countries
- Latest data
- 2020
- Series
- 30
- Unit
- ordinal scale (0-1)
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Retrieved
- 2026-11-05
- Indicator
- multidimensional-poverty-index
- Interva ID
- worldbank-multidimensional-poverty-index
Recency
aging
data to 2020; catalog to 2025
Provenance
2 steps
as the publisher declares it
Versions
1
catalog snapshots
Citation
BibTeX + CSL
versioned permalink
Quality profile
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Recency
50%Latest observation is 2020; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 5 year(s) behind (aging).
Method: Compares the dataset's latest non-projected period with the year most datasets in the catalog end in. Up to 2 years behind is current — annual data is routinely published a year or two late — and more than 5 is stale. Measured from the data, not from when Interva last crawled it.
Temporal completeness
100%11 of 30 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 100% of its years.
Method: Per series, years present divided by years from its first to its last observation; the median across series is reported. Annual periods are assumed, which holds for every series in the catalog today.
Geographic coverage
MeasuredCovers 30 of the 238 countries in the catalog.
Method: Counts distinct geographies with at least one observation. Not scored: a regional dataset covering its region completely is not deficient for omitting the rest of the world.
History depth
MeasuredThe median series has 2 observations; the earliest begins in 2010.
Method: Counts non-projected observations per series. Not scored: a long history is useful for trend work and irrelevant for a cross-section.
Revisions
MeasuredNo observation has been restated in any vintage Interva has recorded.
Method: Counts values the publisher changed between Interva's publishes. Not scored: revising estimates is ordinary and often a sign of care, and the count is here so a reader citing a figure knows whether it moves.
Schema conformity
Not assessedNo declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.
Validity
Not assessedNo field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.
Consistency
Not assessedCross-series consistency rules are not defined yet. The obvious first one — whether two publishers measuring one concept agree within a stated tolerance — is a candidate.
2 scored from the data, 3 described without a score, 3 not assessed. Pipeline integrity: all 5 checks pass. Assessed 2026-11-07.
By country
Multidimensional poverty index for each of the 30 countries it covers, with the full history.
- Afghanistan 2016–2020
- Angola 2015–2015
- Bhutan 2012–2017
- Colombia 2019–2020
- Costa Rica 2010–2019
- Dominican Republic 2010–2016
- Ecuador 2010–2019
- El Salvador 2014–2019
- Ghana 2010–2018
- Guatemala 2014–2014
- Guinea 2014–2014
- Guinea-Bissau 2010–2014
- Honduras 2013–2013
- Malaysia 2014–2019
- Maldives 2016–2016
- Mali 2016–2016
- Mozambique 2014–2014
- Namibia 2015–2015
- Nepal 2011–2019
- Pakistan 2010–2014
- Palestine, State of 2016–2016
- Panama 2017–2017
- Paraguay 2016–2020
- Philippines 2016–2017
- Rwanda 2010–2016
- Saint Lucia 2016–2016
- Seychelles 2018–2018
- South Africa 2011–2016
- Sri Lanka 2016–2019
- Thailand 2017–2017
Latest observations
| Country | Period | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | 2020 | 0.27 | ordinal scale (0-1) |
| Colombia | 2020 | 0.07 | ordinal scale (0-1) |
| Paraguay | 2020 | 0.09 | ordinal scale (0-1) |
| Colombia | 2019 | 0.07 | ordinal scale (0-1) |
| Costa Rica | 2019 | 0.06 | ordinal scale (0-1) |
| Ecuador | 2019 | 0.19 | ordinal scale (0-1) |
| El Salvador | 2019 | 0.12 | ordinal scale (0-1) |
| Malaysia | 2019 | 0.01 | ordinal scale (0-1) |
| Nepal | 2019 | 0.07 | ordinal scale (0-1) |
| Paraguay | 2019 | 0.10 | ordinal scale (0-1) |
Provenance
Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.
Produced by
Not named — the declaration is kept verbatim
Government statistical agencies. Data for EU countires are from the EUROSTAT
declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization
Read from
World Bank
Sustainable Development Goals
declared by worldbank in source
Versions
A vintage is a dated publish of the catalog. The current entry is a catalog snapshot; checksums are not recorded yet and are shown as such.
- CurrentCurrent catalog snapshotchecksum not recorded
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Citation
Version: catalog snapshot 2026-11-05. The record labels this as a catalog snapshot because immutable dataset releases are not stored yet.
World Bank (2026). Multidimensional poverty index. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-multidimensional-poverty-index (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-05.
@misc{interva-worldbank-multidimensional-poverty-index,
title = {Multidimensional poverty index},
author = {World Bank},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-multidimensional-poverty-index}},
note = {Interva dataset worldbank-multidimensional-poverty-index; catalog snapshot 2026-11-05},
urldate = {2026-11-07}
}DOI: not assigned (not assigned). The permalink is versioned by catalog snapshot; a stable dataset DOI is a later step.
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