COMCEC Poverty Outlook 2018
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Figure 4: GDP Per Capita (PPP) in the High Income OIC Countries (Current International$), 2017
Source: The World Bank, 2018a.
Upper-Middle Income OIC Member Countries
Upper-middle income refers to an income level (GNI per capita; Current US$) that is higher than
US$3,956 and lower than US$12,235. In this regard, the upper-middle income OIC Member
Countries are Albania, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Gabon, Guyana, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan,
Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Suriname, Turkey and Turkmenistan.
The GDP per capita (PPP; Current International$) in upper-middle OIC Countries has a diverse
pattern. While this indicator is $8,163 in Guyana, it reaches to $29,431 in Malaysia. Malaysia,
Turkey and Kazakhstan have high GDP per capita values compared to the rest of the group
.
Figure 5: GDP per-capita (PPP, Current Int. $) in the Upper Middle-Income OIC Member Countries, 2017
Source: The World Bank, 2018a.
128.378
78.836
73.878
71.943
53.845
47.527
41.675
0 20.000 40.000 60.000 80.000 100.000 120.000 140.000
Qatar
Brunei Darussalam
United Arab Emirates
Kuwait
Saudi Arabia
Bahrain
Oman
29.431
26.505
26.410
20.950
19.631
18.183
17.993
17.398
17.197
16.669
15.275
15.114
14.676
12.021
9.153
8.163
0 5.000 10.000 15.000 20.000 25.000 30.000 35.000
Malaysia
Turkey
Kazakhstan
Iran, Islamic Rep.
Libya
Gabon
Turkmenistan
Azerbaijan
Iraq
Maldives
Algeria
Suriname
Lebanon
Albania
Jordan
Guyana