The Department of Census and Statistics (DCS) of Sri Lanka has launched its national Multidimensional Poverty Index (national MPI) as an official statistical and policy tool, to inform high-impact policy design and sectoral coordination towards the acceleration of poverty reduction in the country.
Samoa has been measuring monetary poverty since 2002, using the Household Income and Expenditure Surveys (HIES). However, from 2002 to 2018 the reduction in monetary poverty has been less than 1 percentage point, passing from 22.9% to 21.9% in 16 years.