COMCEC Poverty Outlook 2017
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multidimensional poverty exceed the rates of population living in income poverty and
.
Figure 15: Multidimensional Poverty Rate in Upper-Middle Income OIC Member Countries
(%)
Source: UNDP,2016.
Note: Index values for Algeria, Iran, Lebanon, Malaysia, Tunisia and Turkey are not calculated.
The contribution of deprivation in education to overall multidimensional poverty ranges
between 4.3 (Kazakhstan) and 50.1 (Iraq), and the contribution of deprivation in living
conditions ranges between 10,1 (Turkmenistan) and 40.9 (Gabon), while the contribution of
deprivation in health is generally the highest which ranges between 37.2 (Suriname) and 83.9
(Kazakhstan).
State of Hunger
None of the upper-middle income countries are classified under low-income food-deficit
countries.18 Most of the countries in this group have low or moderate levels of hunger .
18 See Annex 5.
1,1 1,2 1,4
2,0 2,4
3,0
7,6 7,8
13,3
16,7
0,0
2,0
4,0
6,0
8,0
10,0
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14,0
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