this means that multidimensional poverty declined in brazil between and this shift is attributable to two different trends the relative number of people in deprived households dropped and the proportion of deprived households that were experiencing deprivation in respect of a single indicator rose the proportion of the urban population of brazil experiencing deprivation h as measured by at least one indicator amounted to in and in if the cutoff is deprivation as measured by at least two indicators the figures drop to and respectively