Who are the 1.2 billion poor people and where do they live? 1

What deprivations do poor people experience? 3

What do the subnational data reveal? 4

Trends over time 6

Children versus adults 8

Countries that have halved their MPI value 8

Box 1. Explaining the increase in the number of poor people 9

Box 2. Computing the Multidimensional Poverty Index 9

Box 3. Data for the 2026 index 10

References 11

Endnotes 12