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National MPI
Multidimensionally Poor (based on National MPI): 30.5% (in 2019/2020)
Launch date of national MPI: June 2016
Institution responsible for national MPI: Ministry of Planning, Development and Reform
Dimensions of national MPI: education, health, and living standards
Pakistan’s Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) builds upon the global MPI, retaining the same three core dimensions: education, health and living standards. The choice of indicators, however, reflects the country’s particular context and political priorities, as well as the data available in the Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement surveys (PSLM).
Latest MPI Results: Pakistan MPI 2019-20
This report presents the first update of Pakistan’s national MPI based on the Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey (PSLM) 2019-20 and was prepared by the Ministry of Planning, Development & Special Initiatives in partnership with UNICEF and OPHI. Pakistan’s official national MPI gives a comprehensive picture of multidimensional poverty aligned with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, is reported as SDG indicator 1.2.2, and complements Pakistan’s national monetary poverty data. The results analysed in this report represent poverty levels just before and at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The analysis offers an evidence-based guide for shaping poverty alleviation policies and can be used by students, journalists, and civil servants to develop and accelerate participatory action plans in which poor people are empowered to escape poverty.
Pakistan MPI – Dimensions and Indicators
Poverty Cut-Off: A person is considered poor if they are deprived in a third or more of the 14 weighted indicators.
Ideally the questions used for the official national MPI should not change between survey waves. However, changes in the PSLM 2019-20 necessitated changes in two indicators used in the previous MPI for Pakistan. The former indicator of access to health facilities had to be dropped, and the definition of ‘educational quality’ was adjusted to improve the accuracy. Due to changes in these two indicators the 2019-20 results are not directly comparable to those of 2014-15, hence, Chapter 3 of the 2024 report presents the strictly harmonised and rigorous analyses of change.
