Severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, clean drinking water, and safety

Lack of sanitation, health, shelter, education, and information facilities

Lack of income and productive resources sufficient to ensure sustainable livelihoods, e.g. in the form of increased morbidity and ill health

Social discrimination and exclusion; non- participation in decision-making as well as in civil and cultural life

Subjective assessment of poverty based on a feeling of disadvantage due to lack of income to maintain the average standard of living in a society