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UNDP/S. Omer Sadaat Children in Shade Bara village, Herat province, Afghanistan.         20 September 2018 Economic Development Half of all people living in poverty are younger than 18 years old, according to estimates from a new report released on Thursday by the United Nations Development Programme ( UNDP ) and partners. The new figures in the 2018 global Multidimensional Poverty Index ( MPI ) show that in 104 primarily low- and middle-income countries, 662 million children are considered poor according to multiple different indicators. In 35 of these countries. Children account for at least 50 per cent of the total. The 2018 MPI, produced by UNDP and the University of Oxford’s Poverty and Human Development Initiative, provides the most comprehensive view of the many ways in which 1.3 billion people worldwide experience poverty in their daily lives. The MPI looks beyond income to understand how people experience poverty i