COMCEC Poverty Outlook 2019
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Figure 18: HDI Values of Low Income OIC Member Countries
Source: UNDP, 2018 .
Note: Data is not available for Somalia.
Index values for the first dimension of HDI, GNI per capita (PPP Current International US$), range
between US$1,030 (Niger) and US$4,040 (Tajikistan) in the low income group, and the GNI values
of all the countries in this group, except Tajikistan and Yemen, are below the average GNI value
for the LHD category which is US$2,521. Regarding the second dimension, life expectancy at birth
the index values are between 52.2 (Sierra Leone) and 71.2 (Tajikistan). For the third dimension,
mean years of schooling, the index values of this group vary between 1.5 (Burkina Faso) and 10.4
(Tajikistan), and only five countries (Tajikistan, Uganda, Syria, Comoros and Togo) have index
values above the LHD average value which is 4.7. Index values for the fourth dimension, expected
years of schooling, is the best among the HDI dimensions, since more than half of the low income
countries have an index value which is above the LHD average index value (9.4) ranging between
5.4 (Niger) and 12.6 (Benin).
Multidimensional Poverty Index
MPI values for the low income OIC Member Countries are between 0.029 (Tajikistan) and 0.59
(Niger).21 For all the countries except Tajikistan, Yemen and Togo in this income group, the rates
of the population inmultidimensional poverty are higher than 50 percent (Figure 19). The highest
share belongs to Niger with almost 90.5 percent. The share of population in severe
multidimensional poverty ranges between 7.4 percent (Tajikistan) and 90.5 percent (Niger).
21 See Annex 8.
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