According to the Federal Government’s 2022 Poverty Index, 133 million Nigerians Live in Poverty.
The civil government said Thursday through the National Statistics Office that 130 million Nigerians are multidimensionally poor.
The figure represents 63 of the country’s population, according to the NBS 2022 Multidimensional Poverty Index check, which was launched in Abuja on Thursday 17 November 2022.
The poverty indicator was set up substantially in pastoral areas, especially in the north, where women and children were hit hardest, he added.
The MPI provides a multivariate poverty assessment and identifies privation related to health, education, living norms, work and shocks.
According to NBS general statistician Semiu Adeniran, this is the first time that a standard multidimensional poverty check has been conducted in Nigeria.” The check will run from 2021 to 2022 and is the largest check with a sample size of over,610 people in 109 senatorial constituencies in 36 countries in Nigeria,” he said.
UN philanthropic fellow Matthias Schumare, grounded in Nigeria, who unveiled the report’s findings, said 63 percent of his Nigerians are multidimensionally poor.
he said
“ Gender inequality continues to affect people, with 1 in 7 poor people living in families where 1 of his men graduated from high academy but no woman did. I live.”
