Human Poverty Index

The Human Poverty Index, abbreviated HPI is an index of human poverty, which is conducted since 1997 in reports of the United Nations Human Development. The HPI takes a value between 0 and 100, with 0 representing minimal and maximum 100 poverty means.

The HPI for developing countries ( HPI -1) includes:

  • Survivability: probability of dying before age 40
  • Lack of knowledge: Percentage of illiterate people in the adult population
  • Adequate standard of living: access to health services; Proportion of malnourished children; Access to clean water (since 2004 is the access to health services due to lack of data no longer included in the HPI)

HPI for industrialized countries (HPI -2) includes some modified:

  • Survivability: probability of dying before age 60
  • Lack of knowledge: percentage of functional illiterates in the adult population
  • Adequate standard of living: the percentage of people whose disposable income is less than 50 % of the median
Human Development Index
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