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.
31698
27893
27831
21011
20706
19270
18012
17912
17510
15622
15498
15312
13326
13058
9348
8569
0 5000 10000 15000 20000 25000 30000 35000
Malaysia
Turkey
Kazakhstan
Iran, Islamic Rep.
Libya
Turkmenistan
Azerbaijan
Gabon
Iraq
Algeria
Suriname
Maldives
Albania
Lebanon
Jordan
Guyana
7,3
3,4
2,5
1,1
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0
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2
3
4
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6
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