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Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2025 – Overlapping Hardships: Poverty and Climate Hazards
Did you know that nearly 8 in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty – 887 million out of 1.1 billion globally – live in regions exposed to climate hazards? The 2025 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), released by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative and the United Nations Development Programme, overlays multidimensional poverty and climate hazard data for the first time. The report’s findings are clear – poverty isn’t a standalone socio-economic issue, but one which is deeply interlinked with negative climate conditions.
The global MPI is an internationally comparable index of multidimensional poverty which covers over 100 countries in developing regions. It complements traditional monetary poverty measures by capturing the acute deprivations in health, education, and living standards that a person faces simultaneously. Join us on 31 October to learn more about key findings on the breadth and depth of poverty around the world as well as findings from the thematic analysis on the links between poverty and climate hazards.
Join in person at Queen Elizabeth House or online (link below).
Date:
31 October 2025, 13:00
Venue:
Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details:
Seminar Room 3
Speakers:
Professor Sabina Alkire (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative),
Lhachi Selden (OPHI, University of Oxford)
Organising department:
Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative
Organiser contact email address:
ophi@qeh.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?:
Not required
Booking url:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BV59yPVcQ6KWp9wacapLwA
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Eleanor Duncan
