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12 July 2023, Bangkok–The latest update of the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) with estimates for 110 countries was released today by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).
Thailand halved the number of people living in multidimensional poverty in just seven years. The numbers dropped from 909,000 in 2012 to 416,000 in 2019, declining further to 352,000 people living in multidimensional poverty by 2022.
8 lis 2024 · Thailand has achieved a significant milestone in its battle against poverty, reducing the number of people living in poverty by half in just seven years, according to the 2024 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI).
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19 gru 2023 · The poverty rate in Bangkok rose from 0.57% to 1.37%, and in the North, it inched up from 6.77% to 6.8%. More alarmingly, a staggering 9.3% of people in the South are grappling with poverty, followed by 7.81% in the Northeast and 6.8% in the North.
Around 5% of the Thai population still lives in poverty, which is about 3 million people living below the poverty line. Tanida Arayavechkit, Senior Economist, and one of the main authors of the Thailand Systematic Country Diagnostic Update 2024 shares her thoughts about what the country can do to become a developed nation with a socially ...
As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions. Thailand poverty rate for 2021 was 12.20%, a 1% decline from 2020. Thailand poverty rate for 2020 was 13.20%, a 0.1% increase from 2019.
