The Federal Government has disclosed that 63 percent of persons within Nigeria, 133 million, are living in poverty.
The figure was presented during the launch of Nigeria’s Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) Survey in Abuja on Thursday.
It was conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the National Social Safety-Nets Coordinating Office (NASSCO), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).
Our correspondent gathered that the measure used to calculate the figure was based on Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) with five components of health, living standard, education, security, and unemployment.
The survey, which sampled over 56,000 households across the 36 states of the Federation and the FCT, conducted between November 2021 and February 2022, states that 65 percent of the poor, 86 million people, live in the North, while 35 percent, nearly 47 million live in the South.
It identified Sokoto State as having the most poverty levels across States, with 91 percent while Ondo has the lowest with 27 percent.
