Child Poverty Report - 2023

Highlights

This report looks at changes in multidimensional child poverty in Zambia since 2015, using the Multiple Overlapping Deprivations analysis (MODA) index. The MODA index looks at child wellbeing across 7 dimensions: nutrition, health, education, water, sanitation, housing and access to information.
Multidimensional child poverty is high in Zambia. 65% of Zambian children experience monetary poverty and 70.6% of Zambian children are deprived in 2 or more dimensions of wellbeing simultaneously.