COMCEC Poverty Outlook 2019
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Figure 12: Share of Income Level Categories for the OIC Member Countries with
Multidimensional Poverty (%), 2019.
Source: World Bank, 2019.
The contribution of deprivation in education to overall poverty for the OIC Region is between 3.1
percent (Kazakhstan) and 60.9 percent (Iraq). The same range for the contribution of deprivation
in health to overall poverty is between 10 percent (Afghanistan) and 94.4 percent (Kazakhstan),
and for the contribution of deprivation in living standards to overall poverty is between 4.1
percent (Maldives) and 55.1 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 30.4
for the year 2000, this value declined to 21.3 in 201818 The GHI values of the Member Countries
range between zero and 45.4. None of the member countries experience an extremely alarming
hunger situation, 3 countries are in alarming situation, and 20 countries are in serious situation
of which Sudan is the most severe one. On the other hand, 13 member countries are in moderate
hunger situation and 8 countries are in low hunger situation.
High Income OIC Countries
Human Development Index
Analysis of high income OIC Member Countries according to their HDI values, shows that all
countries in this group are in very high human development category (Figure 13).
17 See Annex 5.
18 See Annex 6.
38%
36%
26%
Low Income
Lower Middle Income
Upper Middle Income