I have compiled an infographic based on granular analysis of poverty data by researchers at Oxford University. It provides surprising insights about who are extremely poor and where they live across the globe.

1. Based on multi-dimensional poverty measures (MDI), the 5 poorest sub-national regions in different geographical areas
are: Sub-Saharan Africa (Salamat, Hadjer Lamis and Lac in Chad; and Est and Sahel in Burkina Faso),Central and Eastern
Europe and Central Asia: (Turkey and four areas in Tajikistan: Khatlon, GornoBadakhshan, Sughd, and Districts of
Republican Subordination), Arab States (Djibouti and Missan, Al-Qadisiva and Al-Muthanna in Iraq), Latin America and
Caribbean (Central, Grande-Anse, North-East, Artibonite and North-West - all in Haiti), East Asia and the Pacific:
Oecussi, Ermera, Ainaro and Viqueque in Timor-Leste; and Mondol Kiri/Rattanak Kiri in Cambodia), South Asia (Bihar
and Jharkhand in India, South and West Afghanistan, and Balochistan in Pakistan.)
GLOBAL POVERTY
MDI (HEALTH, EDUCATION & LIVING STANDARD)
Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (Winter
2014/2015) Global Multidimensional Poverty Index Databank. OPHI,
University of Oxford; The Hunger Project
HOW ARE THEY POOR?
POSITIVE NEWS
More than 60% (458 million) of extremely poor
people live in the subnationalregions of India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Cameroon,
Kenya, Cote D’Ivoire, Ghana, Namibia, and the
Republic of Congo i.e., middle-income countries
(with the exception of Kenya). The “bottom billion”
who suffers the greatest intensity of poverty is
distributed across 104 countries around the world.
1.4 billion people in developing countries live on ≤$1.25 per day. 42% Live in
households where no adult has even 5 years of education; 54% Live in households where
at least one personis undernourished (overall, 60% of the world’s hungry are estimated to
be women); 43% live in households where at least 1 child has died (A third of all childhood
deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa is attributed to hunger); 81% live in households where
sanitation is inadequate.
Countries have been able to reduce MPI over
time in different ways. Prior to the 2015
earthquake, childhood mortality and nutrition
improved in Nepal over a 4-year period. Access
to sanitation and safe water improved from
2005-2010 in Rwanda; School attendance and
mortality improved in Ghana from 2003-2008.
Zeena