India among five countries with largest number of people living in poverty: UN report

United Nations. India is among the five countries globally with the largest number of people living in poverty, according to the UN report that said 1.1 billion people, over half of them minors, live in acute poverty worldwide.
The latest update of the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) was released on Thursday by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) based at the University of Oxford.
It said that 1.1 billion people live in acute poverty worldwide, with 40 percent living in countries experiencing war, fragility, and/or low peacefulness, according to at least one of the three widely used datasets of conflict settings.
India has 234 million people living in poverty, which is the medium Human Development Index, placing the country among five globally with the largest number of people living in poverty.
“The other four countries are Pakistan (93 million), Ethiopia (86 million), Nigeria (74 million), and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (66 million), all low HDI,” it said. Together, these five countries account for nearly half (48.1 percent) of the 1.1 billion poor people,” it said.