COMCEC Poverty Outlook 2018
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Lower-Middle Income OIC Countries
Human Development Index
In the lower-middle income group, Tunisia and Uzbekistan are in high human development
category, one third of the countries are in the low human development category, namely, Sudan,
Nigeria, Mauritania, Djibouti and Cote d’Ivoire and the rest is in the medium human development
category, namely Indonesia, Palestine, Pakistan, Morocco, Kyrgyzstan, Egypt, Cameroon and
Bangladesh. . The highest HDI value is 0.735 and belongs to Tunisia, with a position of
95 in the HDI ranking, while the lowest value is 0.476 and belongs to Djibouti, with a position of
172.
Regarding the first dimension of HDI, GNI per capita (2011, PPP, US$) the index values of the
lower-middle income countries range between US$3,255 and US$10,846, and only four countries
(Indonesia, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia) have a GNI value which is above the average GNI value
for the Medium Human Development (MHD) category (US$6.849). Index values for the second
dimension, life expectancy at birth, range between 53.9 (Nigeria) and 76,1 (Morocco) of which
nearly more than half are below the average index value for the MHD category (69.1). For the
third dimension, mean years of schooling, the index values of this group vary between 3.7 (Sudan)
and 11.5 (Uzbekistan), and more than one third of them are above the average index value (6.7).
Regarding the fourth dimension, expected years of schooling, nearly half of these countries have
an index value less than the average index value (12), ranging between 6.2 (Djibouti) and 15.1
(Tunisia).
Figure 16: HDI Values of Lower-Middle Income OIC Member Countries
Source: The UNDP, 2018.
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