COMCEC Poverty Outlook 2017
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Figure 12: Share of Income Level Categories for the OIC Member Countries with
Multidimensional Poverty (%)
Source: UNDP (2016) and the World Bank, 2016b.
The contribution of deprivation in education to overall poverty for the OIC Region is between
3.7 percent (Uzbekistan) and 54.7 percent (Syria). The same range for the contribution of
deprivation in health to overall poverty is between 18.8 percent (Somalia) and 83.9 percent
(Kazakhstan), and for the contribution of deprivation in living standards to overall poverty is
between 3.5 percent (Jordan) and 51.9 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. 16 Regarding the GHI values for these countries, an
important improvement is observed. While the mean value of the OIC member countries was
35.1 for the year 1990, this value declined to 20.4 in 2016.17 The GHI values of the Member
Countries range between zero and 44.3. None of the member countries experience an extremely
alarming hunger situation, 3 countries are in alarming situation, and 21 countries are in serious
situation of which Afghanistan is the most severe one. On the other hand, 9 member countries
are in moderate hunger situation and 13 countries are in low hunger situation.
16 See Annex 5.
17 See Annex 6.
16; 36%
19; 42%
10; 22%
Low
Lower Middle
Upper Middle