The first-ever Multi-dimensional Poverty Index (MPI) prepared by NITI Aayog reveals that Bihar has the highest proportion of people who are multi-dimensionally poor (51.91%) followed by Jharkhand (42.16%) and Uttar Pradesh (37.79%).
Bihar also has the highest number of malnourished people followed by Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh.
Kerala (0.71), Goa (3.76), and Sikkim (3.82) have the lowest percentage of population being multi-dimensionally poor. Among the Union Territories, Dadra and Nagar Haveli (27.36), Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh (12.58), Daman & Diu (6.82) and Chandigarh (5.97), have emerged as the poorest UTs in India. The proportion of poor in Puducherry at 1.72% is the lowest among the Union Territories.
This baseline report of the national MPI measure is based on the reference period of 2015-16 of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS). The MPI has three dimensions of equal weightage - health, education, and standard of living, which in turn are represented by 12 indicators such as nutrition, school attendance, years of schooling, drinking water, sanitation, housing, bank accounts among others.
The MPI uses the globally accepted methodology developed by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
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