COMCEC Poverty Outlook 2019

Figure 3: Share of Income Level Categories for Countries with Multidimensional Poverty

(%)

Source: World Bank 2019

The percentages of the deprived population vary significantly within the same income group

countries. The contribution of deprivation in education (namely years of schooling and child

school attendance) to overall poverty ranges between 3.1 and 49 percent for upper-middle

income countries, between 15.1 and 48.6 percent for lower-middle income countries and between

25.8 and 52.4 for low income countries. The range for health is much wider. It varies between 18.6

and 47.7 percent for upper-middle income countries, 18.6 and 40.7 percent for lower-middle

income countries and 21.3 and 90.4 percent for low income countries. Likewise, the contribution

of deprivation in living standards indicator ranges from 3.1 to 49 percent for upper-middle

income, from 7.0 to 49.7 percent in lower-middle income and from 25.8 to 55.1 percent in low

income group. The difference between the deprivation levels of the MPI indicators among

different income group countries is striking.

State of Hunger

According to FAO, there are 51 low-income food-deficit countries in total, of which 37 are in Africa,

11 are in Asia, 2 are in America and 1 are in Oceania.

To understand the hunger situation of the

countries, it is helpful to look at the GHI values. In this regard, according to the GHI trend between

2000 and 2018, severity of hunger is found to be decreasing globally. Indeed, while the value of

the 2000 GHI for OIC was 30.4, this value is 21.2 for 2018, which accounts to a decrease of 30

percent

World Bank, 2019

FAO, 2018. Low-income food-deficit countries are the countries with a net income per person that falls below

the level used by the World Bank to determine eligibility for IDA assistance and net importers of food. For full list

of low-income-food-deficit countries. See Annex 6.

Global Hunger Index, 2018,

1,96%

28,43%

41,18%

28,43%

High income

Low income

Lower middle income

Upper middle income