New York38.3% of Pakistanis are multidimensionally poor, versus 16.4% in India.

The UN Development Programme counts 1.2 billion poor worldwide, the first rise in 15 years.

The index counts overlapping deprivations in nutrition, schooling, water and electricity rather than income, with Bangladesh at 14.9%.

The surveys behind each country’s figure date from different years, so the comparison is not strictly contemporaneous.

Another 12.9% of Pakistanis are classed as vulnerable to falling into it.

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Dawn leans critical
compares Pakistan's 38.3% multidimensional poverty against India and Bangladesh, and flags the first global rise in 15 years

Sources: Dawn