COMCEC Poverty Outlook 2019
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medium human development category (Figure 14). Malaysia has the highest HDI value in this
group and positioned at 57 in the ranking, on the other hand, Guyana’s HDI value is the lowest
with 0.654 positioning at 125.
Index values for the first dimension of HDI, GNI per capita (PPP, Current International $), are
between US$8,570 (Guyana) and US$30,600 (Malaysia) for the upper-middle income countries.
Half of them are above the average GNI value for the HHD category, which is US$14,999. Index
values for the second dimension, life expectancy at birth, are between 66.5 (Gabon) and 79.8
(Lebanon) of which more than half are below the average life expectancy at birth value for the
HHD category (76). Regarding the third dimension, mean years of schooling, one third of the
upper-middle income OIC countries have an index value that is lower than the average HHD index
value, which is 8.2, and ranges between 6.3 (Maldives) and 11.8 (Kazakhstan). Lastly, regarding
the fourth dimension, expected years of schooling, the HDD index value is 14.1, and the countries
index values range between 10.8 (Turkmenistan) and 15.2 (Turkey).
Figure 14: HDI Values of Upper-Middle Income OIC Member Countries
Source: UNDP, 2018.
Multidimensional Poverty Index
Among upper-middle income countries, MPI is lowest in Turkmenistan (0.0015) and highest in
Gabon (0.0658). Indeed, while the multidimensional poverty rate is less than 1 in Turkmenistan,
Jordan, Kazakhstan, Maldives, Albania, Libya; it is more than 7 percent in Suriname, Iraq and
Gabon. When the multidimensional poverty rates of these countries compared to their monetary
poverty rates, it is seen that the rates of population living in multidimensional poverty exceed the
rates of population living in income poverty (Figure 6 and Figure 15).
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