According to the National Bureau of Statistics, 133 million Nigerians are multidimensionally poor.
According to the NBS’s latest National Multidimensional Poverty Index Report, released on Thursday, 63% of Nigerians are poor due to a lack of access to health, education, and living standards, as well as unemployment and shocks.
The MPI assesses poverty in a multivariate manner, identifying deprivations in health, education, living standards, work, and shocks.
According to the NBS’s Statistician-General, Semiu Adeniran, this is the first time a standard multidimensional poverty survey will be conducted in Nigeria.
In the second quarter, debt stock increased to N42.84 trillion, according to NBS “The survey was implemented in 2021 to 2022 and it is the largest survey with a sample size of over 56,610 people in 109 senatorial districts in the 36 stated of Nigeria,” he said.
According to Matthias Schmale, the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, who revealed the report’s findings, 63% of Nigerians are multidimensionally poor, which means they are deficient in more than one of the four dimensions measured.
He stated, “Multidimensional poverty is more pronounced in rural areas where 72 per cent of people are poor compared to urban areas where we have 42 per cent.
“Gender disparity continues to affect the population with one in seven poor people living in a household in which a man has completed high school but the woman has not.”
