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Detailed explanation-1: -The results show that about 38 percent of children were multidimensionally poor in 2015–16, which reduced to 27 percent in 2019–21.

Detailed explanation-2: -It was developed by OPHI with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 2010. It is a part of UNDP’s Human Development Report (HDR) and is released annually. MPI 2022 was released in October 2022. India ranked 62 in the Global MPI 2020 which ranked 107 countries.

Detailed explanation-3: -MPI India rank was last released in September 2021, when India ranked 66 out of the 109 countries that are assessed in the survey. Nearly 1.3 billion people were found to be multi-dimensionally poor under this index.

Detailed explanation-4: -Published: Monday 12 December 2022 Some 25.01 per cent of the population in India is multi-dimensionally poor, with a Multi-Dimensional Poverty Index (MPI) score of 0.118, said the minister of state for health and family welfare Bharati Pravin Pawar, citing data released by NITI Aayog in 2021.

Detailed explanation-5: -Global Multidimensional Poverty Index: According to the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2022, around 415 million people in India climbed out of poverty between 2005-06 and 2019-21, with the incidence of poverty falling from 55 per cent to just over 16 per cent over this period.