New Global Multidimensional Poverty Index Report Reveals Nearly 80% of the World's Poor Live in Regions Exposed to Climate Hazards

This press release announces the 2025 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report by UNDP and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, which finds that nearly 80% of the world’s multidimensionally poor people (about 887 million out of 1.1 billion) live in regions exposed to climate hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, drought, and air pollution. The report shows that poverty and climate risk increasingly overlap, with hundreds of millions of poor people facing multiple, simultaneous climate hazards, particularly in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. By combining poverty data with climate hazard exposure for the first time, the report highlights how climate change is deepening existing inequalities and warns that future climate impacts are likely to hit today’s poorest countries hardest. It calls for urgent, people-centred climate action, climate-resilient poverty reduction strategies, and stronger international cooperation and finance ahead of COP30.

Access the 2025 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) Report here. 

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