Updated: For Multidimensional Poverty Index rollout from 2010, see “‘300 million people are suddenly poor”; the Multidimensional Poverty Index and Rwanda“.
For the 2019, read the release and related documents and see the data set at Table 1 here.
The report covers 101 developing countries. As a percentage of population living in “multidimensional poverty” Sub-Saharan African countries fare worse than other regions on average but there are wide variations between countries as well as within countries.
The countries in Sub-Saharan Africa with less than 50% of the population living in multidimensional poverty:
South Africa 6.3
Gabon 14.8
Eswatini 19.2
Sao Tome & Principe 22.1
Congo (Brazzaville) 24.3
Ghana 30.1
Zimbabwe 31.8
Lesotho 33.6
Namibia 38.0
Kenya 38.7
Cameroon 45.3
Cote d’Ivoire 46.1
Togo 48.2
Others in East Africa:
Sudan 52.3
Rwanda 54.4
Uganda 55.4
Tanzania 55.4
Burundi 74.3
Ethiopia 83.5
South Sudan (pre-civil war survey) 91.9 (worst of the 101 listed)
Observation: Some global comparisons for reference might include India 27.9, Myanmar 38.3, Cambodia 37.2, Haiti 41.3, Guatemala 28.9; Honduras 19.3, Mexico 6.3.
As far as other places with terrorist conflict: Nigeria 51.4; Chad 85.7; Burkina Faso 83.8; CAR 79.2; Mali 78.1; DRC 74.0; Mozambique 72.5. Libya was listed as 2.0, Egypt 5.3, Tunisia 1.3 and Algeria 2.1.
Djibouti, Eritrea and Somalia/Somaliland were not included.