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Figure 21: Annual growth rate in HDI between 1990 and 2017
Source: Own calculations from UNDP (2018).
Note: The rates are calculated as the annual compound growth rate.
2.2. The current level of human development in OIC
The progress in human development in OICmember states is highly uneven. The HDI values varies
between 0.354 (Nigeria) and 0.863 (United Arab Emirates) according to HDR 2018. 25 out of 57
OIC member states have below OIC average HDI values and the remaining 31 have above average
HDI values.
United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Brunei Darussalam, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, Malaysia
and Kazakhstan have HDI values above 0.800 and are all placed in very high human development
category. This implies only 9 out of 57 very high human development countries (15 percent) are
fromOIC. Iran, Turkey, Albania, Azerbaijan, Lebanon, Algeria, Jordan, Tunisia, Suriname, Maldives,
Uzbekistan Libya, Turkmenistan and Gabon are in high human development category with their
HDI values between 0.700 and 0.800. These countries constitute 26.4 percent of this category (14
out of 53). With HDI values between 0.550 and 0.700, Egypt, Indonesia, Palestine, Iraq,
Kyrgyzstan, Morocco, Guyana, Tajikistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Cameroon are the members
of medium human development category. According to HDR 2018, 22 out of 38 country in low
development category is from OIC. Finally, Syria, Nigeria, Mauritania, Uganda, Benin, Senegal,
Comoros, Togo, Sudan, Afghanistan, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau,
Yemen, Mozambique, Mali, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Chad and Niger are in low development
category and these countries constitute 57.9 percent of this category (22 out of 438). Considering
that OIC member states constitute nearly 30 percent of the countries that are included in HDR
2018 (56 out of 189), the figures imply OIC is significantly underrepresented in very high category
and significantly overrepresented in low development category.
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