The National Bureau of Statistics has revealed that 133 million Nigerians are multidimensionally poor.
The agency in its latest national multidimensionally poverty index report which was released on Thursday, said that about 63 percent of Nigerians are poor.
According to them, this is as a result of lack of access to health, education, and living standards, alongside unemployment and shocks.
According to the Statistician-General at the NBS, Semiu Adeniran, it is the first time they will conduct a standard multidimensional poverty survey in Nigeria.
Also, the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Matthias Schmale, revealed that findings from the report said 63 per cent of Nigerians are multidimensionally poor meaning that they are being derived in more than one dimension of the four measured.
“Multidimensional poverty is more pronounced in rural areas where 72 per cent of people are poor compared to urban areas where we have 42 per cent.
“Gender disparity continues to affect the population with one in seven poor people living in a household in which a man has completed high school but the woman has not.” He said.
