Odisha’s Multidimensional poverty reduced to 11.07%

Pradeep Kumar Panda
Darshan Samikhya, Bhubaneswar

Multidimensional poverty in Odisha was found to decline from 63.84% in 2005-06 to 11.07% in 2022-23 with about 102.78 lakh people escaping poverty during this period.

The National Multidimensional Poverty Index by NITI Aayog uses the internationally acclaimed Alkire Foster methodology with a difference that National MPI covers 12 indicators while global MPI covers 10 indicators. This analysis attempts to study the decline in poverty rates and number of multidimensionally poor people across various time periods.

The recent report on National MPI was based on National Family Health Surveys 4 (2015-16) and 5 (2019-21). Owing to lack of data for the years between 2005-06 and 2015-16 and after 2019-21 concerning the incidence of poverty levels, headcount poverty ratios for 2013-14 and 2022-23 have been estimated based on compound growth rate of the reduction in the incidence of poverty levels between 2005-06 and 2015-16 and 2015-16 and 2019-21 respectively.