Top 10 Countries By Multidimensional Poverty Index as per Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative and the United Nations Depelopment Programme (UNDP) Human Development Report.
| Rank | Country | MPI Index |
| 1 | Niger | 6425 |
| 2 | Ethiopia | 5824 |
| 3 | Mali | 5639 |
| 4 | Burkina Faso | 5358 |
| 5 | Burundi | 5298 |
| 6 | Somalia | 5137 |
| 7 | Cent African Rep | 5123 |
| 8 | Guinea | 5047 |
| 9 | Sierra Leone | 4891 |
| 10 | Liberia | 4839 |
The lives of people living in poverty are affected by more than just their income. The Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) complements a traditional focus on income to reflect the deprivations that a poor person faces all at once with respect to education, health and living standard. It assesses poverty at the individual level, with poor persons being those who are multiply deprived, and the extent of their poverty being measured by the range of their deprivations.
