• Globally, 25 Nations, including India, have successfully halved their MPI values within the last 15 years.

• However, across 110 countries, 1.1 billion out of 6.1 billion people (little more than 18%) are severely underprivileged. 

• About five out of every six impoverished people reside in Sub-Saharan Africa (534 million) and South Asia (389 million).  

• In India, 415 million poor people left poverty between 2005/2006 and 2019/2021, with the incidence decreasing from 55.1% to 16.4%.   

• According to the report, poor people without access to cooking fuel declined from 52.9% to 13.9%, and those without access to sanitation fell from 50.4% in 2005/2006 to 11.3% in 2019/2021

• However, most of the 110 countries in the global MPI lack post-epidemic data, limiting the comprehension of how the pandemic has affected poverty.

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