NEARLY eight in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty —or 887 million of the 1.1 billion globally—are directly exposed to climate hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, drought, or air ... The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (global MPI) is an annual international measure of acute multidimensional poverty covering over 100 developing countries. It complements traditional monetary poverty measures by capturing the acute, overlapping deprivations in health, education, and living standards that people in poverty face. Multidimensional Poverty Index Multidimensional Poverty Indices use a range of indicators (monetary, health, education and others) to calculate a summary poverty figure for a given population, in which a larger figure indicates a higher level of poverty . The National Multidimensional Poverty measures simultaneous deprivations across three equally weighted dimensions of Health, Education, and Standard of Living that are represented by 12 Sustainable Development Goals-aligned indicators
