India records fastest reduction in multi-dimensional poverty in 2006-16

Jharkhand reduced the incidence of multidimensional poverty from 74.9 per cent in 2005-06 to 46.5 per cent in 2015-16

India has recorded the fastest reduction in multi-dimensional poverty between 2006 and 2016, lifting 271 million people out of poverty during this period, according to a report by the United Nations.

India’s multi-dimensional poverty index (MPI) reduced from 0.283 in 2005-06 to 0.123 in 2015-16 with strong improvements in areas such as “assets, cooking fuel, sanitation and nutrition”. Multidimensional poverty almost halved during the decade, down to 27.5 per cent, showed the 2019 global MPI from the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI). 

The report pointed out of the 10 select countries for which changes