133 million Nigerians live in poverty on multiple fronts, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)
The NBS stated in its most recent National Multidimensional Poverty Index Report, released on Thursday, that 63% of Nigerians live in poverty as a result of insufficient access to health, education, and living standards, as well as unemployment and shocks.
The MPI provides a multivariate method of assessing poverty that identifies deprivations in areas such as health, education, living conditions, employment, and shocks.
Semiu Adeniran, the NBS’s general statistician, claimed that this will be the country of Nigeria’s first multidimensional standard poverty survey.
The survey was implemented in 2021 to 2022 and it is the largest survey with a sample size of over 56,610 people in 109 senatorial districts in the 36 stated of Nigeria.
The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Matthias Schmale, who revealed the findings from the report said 63 per cent of Nigerians are multidimensionally poor meaning that they are being derived in more than one dimension of the four measured.
He said;
Multidimensional poverty is more pronounced in rural areas where 72 per cent of people are poor compared to urban areas where we have 42 per cent.
Gender disparity continues to affect the population with one in seven poor people living in a household in which a man has completed high school but the woman has not.
