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COMCEC Poverty Outlook 2019

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Figure 5: GDP per Capita (PPP, Current Int. $) in the Upper Middle-Income OIC Member

Countries, 2018

Source: The World Bank, 2019.

Despite the fact that number of people living below US$1.90 among upper-middle income OIC

countries is very low, in some member countries like Maldives and Gabon and Iraq the number of

people living under the poverty circumstances is relatively high (Figure 6).

Figure 6: Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day (2011 PPP) (%of population) in Upper-

Middle Income OIC Member Countries

Source: The World Bank, 2019.

Note:

Data for Azerbaijan, Guyana, Turkmenistan, Libya and Suriname are not

available. Also, data used in the figure vary for each country between 2007 and 2017.

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Lebanon

Jordan

Guyana

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