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Poverty and global development are not only on the agenda<\/a> at the World Economic Forum in Davos<\/a>. But despite positive trends being observed in the aftermath of the Millennium Development Goals<\/a> poverty still persists.
\nAs a successor to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), the United Nations announced a set of 17 new Sustainable Development Goals<\/a> (SDG) relating to international development. Still on top of the agenda remains the issue of poverty. Here the new goal is to \u2018end poverty in all its forms everywhere\u2019 by 2030, meaning to \u2018eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.90 a day\u2019 and to \u2018reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions\u2019.
\nThere are trends in past decades that indicate major improvements in tackling the problem of global poverty. In relative terms, the original MDG goal of halving extreme poverty between 1990 and 2015 has been met. In developing regions, people in extreme poverty now make up 14 per cent of the population there, while most recent figures and estimates suggest that still over two billion people globally live on less than $2 a day, a measure used to measure \u2018moderate\u2019 poverty. This figure is also used as a base for the main cartogram below. The map modifies the size of each country according to the total number of people there who live on up to $2 a day according to the most recent available estimates. In addition, the colour shading uses information from the 2015 Multidimensional Poverty Index<\/a> (MPI) to highlight the percentage of the population that is multi-dimensionally poor.<\/p>\n

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The MPI is part of the Human Development Index<\/a> and covers 91 of the most disadvantaged countries with a total population of 1.5 billion. It takes into account that poverty is a multidimensional issue which cannot only be measured by monetary indicators. The cartogram therefore combines the monetary measure as a base for the distortion with a combination of further dimensions of poverty, such as deprivation in education, health and standard of living. The small series of cartograms below the main map dissects these dimensions of poverty by showing their contribution of deprivation in dimension to overall poverty shown on the same cartogram as the main map.<\/p>\n

The debate about poverty<\/a> needs to move from the most commonly used monetary indicators towards a more comprehensive approach. Poverty still affects large proportions of the world\u2019s population, and not only those who have least money. In Chad and Ethiopia for example, the incidence of multidimensional poverty is at 87 per cent while for extreme poverty by monetary measurements it is \u2018only\u2019 at about 37 per cent. Looking at other figures from the 2015 MPI report, it can be seen that \u2018of the 1.6 billion people living in multidimensional poverty, 54 per cent live in South Asia, and 31 per cent in sub-Saharan Africa\u2019. It also finds that \u2018most MPI poor people \u2013 70 per cent \u2013 live in Middle Income Countries\u2019.<\/p>\n

Ending poverty by 2030 could prove a challenge despite all efforts that have been made, as these statistics show how complex the many dimensions of poverty really are.<\/p>\n

A modified version<\/a> of this story was published in the November 2015 issue<\/a> of Geographical Magazine<\/a>. The content on this page has been created by Benjamin Hennig. Please contact me<\/a> for further details on the terms of use.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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