COMCEC Poverty Outlook 2018
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Multidimensional Poverty Index
Looking at the group of countries for which MPI is calculated, it is observed that 79 percent of the
OIC member countries are included in this group. Among the OIC member countries which have
MPI values, 22 percent is upper-middle, 42 percent is lower-middle and 36 percent is low income
countries . The population living in multidimensional poverty changes a lot among the
OIC member countries. While in Kazakhstan this rate is only 1.1 percent, in Niger it reaches to
almost 90 percent. Totally, almost 15 percent of total the population in the OIC member countries
live under multidimensional poverty.16
Figure 12: Share of Income Level Categories for the OIC Member Countries with
Multidimensional Poverty (%)
Source: UNDP (2016) and the World Bank, 2016b.
The contribution of deprivation in education to overall poverty for the OIC Region is between 3.7
percent (Uzbekistan) and 54.7 percent (Syria). The same range for the contribution of deprivation
in health to overall poverty is between 18.8 percent (Somalia) and 83.9 percent (Kazakhstan), and
for the contribution of deprivation in living standards to overall poverty is between 3.5 percent
(Jordan) and 51.9 percent (Uganda).
State of Hunger
More than half of the OIC Member Countries are defined as low-income food deficit country
according to the classification of the FAO. 17 Regarding the GHI values for these countries, an
important improvement is observed. While the mean value of the OIC member countries was 35.1
for the year 1990, this value declined to 20.4 in 2016.18 The GHI values of the Member Countries
range between zero and 44.3. None of the member countries experience an extremely alarming
hunger situation, 3 countries are in alarming situation, and 21 countries are in serious situation
of which Afghanistan is the most severe one. On the other hand, 9 member countries are in
moderate hunger situation and 13 countries are in low hunger situation.
16 Calculated by using the data from the UNDP, 2015 and the World Bank 2015a.
17 See Annex 5.
18 See Annex 6.
16; 36%
19; 42%
10; 22%
Low
Lower Middle
Upper Middle