COMCEC Poverty Outlook 2019
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Iraq 26.5 24.9 24.4 22.1
Algeria 15.6 12.9 10.6 9.4
Suriname 16 12.5 10.5 10.2
Albania 21.6 16.9 15.4 12.2
Lebanon 9.1 10.3 8 11.7
Jordan 12.2 8.5 8.3 11.2
Guyana 17.8 16.9 15.9 12.6
Iran 13.5 9.4 8.1 7.3
Source: Global Hunger Index, 2018
Note: Libya and Maldives have no data available.
Lower-Middle Income OIC Countries
Human Development Index
In the lower-middle income group, Tunisia and Uzbekistan are in high human development
category, one third of the countries are in the low human development category, namely,
Comoros, Senegal, Mauritania, Sudan and Nigeria and the rest is in the medium human
development category (Figure 16). The highest HDI value is 0.735 and belongs to Tunisia, with a
position of 95 in the HDI ranking, while the lowest value is 0.476 and belongs to Djibouti, with a
position of 172.
Regarding the first dimension of HDI, GNI per capita (PPP, Current International US$) the index
values of the lower-middle income countries range between US$2,730 and US$12,650 and only 5
countries (Indonesia, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia and Uzbekistan) have a GNI value above
average GNI value for theMediumHuman Development (MHD) category (US$6,849). Index values
for the second dimension, life expectancy at birth, range between 53.9 (Nigeria) and 76.1
(Morocco) of which nearly more than half are below the average index value for the MHD category
(69.1). For the third dimension, mean years of schooling, the index values of this group vary
between 3.7 (Sudan) and 11.5 (Uzbekistan), and more than one third of them are above the
average index value (6.7). Regarding the fourth dimension, expected years of schooling, nearly
half of these countries have an index value less than the average index value (12), ranging between
6.2 (Djibouti) and 15.1 (Tunisia).