The Multidimensional Poverty Index of Palestine was launched in June 2020. The report was prepared by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) and the National Team for Poverty Combating with support from OPHI. The source of data is the 2016/17 Palestinian Consumption and Expenditure Survey (PECS).

This report responds to a decree issued by the Palestinian Council of Ministers to evaluate the multidimensional poverty within the preparation framework for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Palestinian National Policy Agenda (NPA).

• Citation: Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, 2020. Multidimensional Poverty Report, 2017. Main Results. Ramallah - Palestine (Report is laid out in Arabic followed by English)

Poverty Cut-Off: A person is considered poor if they are deprived in 33% of the 21 weighted indicators.  

The annual global MPI produced by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative in partnership with the Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Programme is an internationally comparable index of acute multidimensional poverty. OPHI publishes Country Briefings summarising poverty statistics of the global MPI for each country.     

Visit the most recent Global MPI Country Briefing for the State of Palestine based on MICS year 2019-2020. 

Official institution responsible for statistics  

• Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

News/Press Releases

• 9 November 2023 | Poverty in the State of Palestine set to soar by more than a third if war continues for a second month - United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (unescwa.org)

Events  

• 5 March 2019 | Intervention by Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics at UNSC 50 Side Event
• 25 February 2021 | Intervention by Jawad Al Saleh, Assistant of President for the Development of Statistical Affairs, Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics 
• 15 February 2022 | Intervention of Jawad Al-Saleh, Assistant of President of PCBS for Development of Statistical Work, Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics at Side Event at UNSC 53