Results indicated that 82.7 percent of people were living in multidimensional poverty, or more than 8 in every 10 people based on the regions surveyed. The intensity of poverty, or the average number of deprivations faced by multidimensionally poor people, was 46.7 per cent. On average, a poor person experienced more than 45 percent of possible weighted deprivations. The national MPI, which is the product of the incidence (percentage
of people living in multidimensional poverty) and intensity (average number of deprivations faced by poor people) of multidimensional poverty, was 0.386. Multidimensionally poor people faced on average 38.6 percent of all
possible deprivations, if all individuals were multidimensionally poor and deprived on all indicators.
Poverty tended to be higher in rural areas (89.4 percent) than urban areas (68.9 percent). Ad Dali’ and Al Bayda had the highest incidence of multidimensional poverty. An estimated 40 percent of multidimensionally poor people lived in Ta’iz governorate, which has a large population.
Nationally, years of schooling and sanitation were the two indicators with the largest censored headcount ratios,1 with more than 70 percent of the population deprived on these indicators and multidimensionally poor. In terms of the percentage contribution of each of the 17 indicators to the national MPI, the largest contributors were years of schooling (17.1 percent), followed by cooking fuel (9.1 percent) and sanitation (8.1 percent).
Female-headed households had a lower incidence of multidimensional poverty than male-headed households but the difference was not significant. Households where the head was divorced had a lower incidence of
multidimensional poverty compared to other households. By contrast, households where the male head was married to more than one wife had higher levels. The intensity of their poverty was also greater. The incidence of poverty among people living in smaller households was 64.4 percent, compared to 86.4 percent and 91.1 percent for people living in households with five to nine members or more than nine members, respectively. Finally households with members with disabilities had higher levels of multidimensional poverty than households without members with disabilities (86.4 percent compared to 81.2 percent).- Thanks to UNDPYemen
