Human Poverty Index
The Human Poverty Index (HPI, German index of human poverty ) is an index for human poverty , which was included in 1997 reports of the United Nations on human development. The HPI assumes a value between 0 and 100, with 0 meaning minimum and 100 maximum poverty. In 2010 he was the index of multidimensional poverty (English Multidimensional Poverty Index , abbreviated MPI) replaced.
The HPI for Developing Countries (HPI-1) includes:
- Survivability
- Probability of dying before age 40
- missing knowledge
- Percentage of illiterate people in the adult population
- adequate standard of living
- Access to health services ; Proportion of malnourished children; Access to clean drinking water (since 2004, access to health services is no longer included in the HPI due to a lack of data)
The HPI for industrialized countries (HPI-2) includes somewhat modified:
- Survivability
- Probability of dying before age 60
- missing knowledge
- Percentage of functionally illiterate people in the adult population
- adequate standard of living
- Percentage of people whose disposable income less than 50% of the median is
- Social exclusion
- Percentage of long-term unemployed (12 months and longer)
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Why is the MPI better than the Human Poverty Index (HPI) which was previously used in the Human Development Reports? ( Memento from September 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive )