COMCEC Poverty Outlook 2017
17
Table 2: Global Hunger Index Values of Upper-Middle Income OIC Member Countries
Country 1990 1995 2000 2005 2016
Albania 21,4 19,1 21,1 17,1 11,9
Algeria 17,1 18,0 14,8 12,2 8,7
Azerbaijan − 28,3 27,2 16,7 9,8
Gabon 23,2 20,8 18,5 16,2 12
Guyana − 24,1 18,8 16,9 14,5
Iran 18,5 16,5 13,7 9,5 6,7
Iraq 17,4 24,3 24,9 23,6 22
Kazakhstan − 15,4 10,7 12,3 7,8
Lebanon 12,1 9,4 9,0 10,4 7,1
Libya − − − − −
Malaysia 20,4 17,4 15,5 14,6 9,7
Suriname 18,5 16,5 16,5 13,1 10,1
Turkey 14,5 13,4 10,5 7,6 <5
Turkmenistan − 24,5 22,2 17,5 12,3
Source: IFPRI ., 2016.
Note: Index value for Maldives is not calculated.
Lower-Middle Income OIC Countries
Human Development Index
In the lower-middle income group, Jordan and Uzbekistan are in high human development
category, nearly half of the countries are in the low human development category, namely Syria,
Nigeria, Cameroon, Mauritania, Sudan, Yemen, Cote d’Ivoire and Djibouti and the rest is in the
medium human development category, namely Egypt, Indonesia, Palestine, Kyrgyzstan,
Morocco, Tajikistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan. . The highest HDI value is 0.741 and
belongs to Jordan, with a position of 86 in the HDI ranking, while the lowest value is 0.473 and
belongs to Djibouti, with a position of 172.
Regarding the first dimension of HDI, GNI per capita (2011, PPP, US$) the index values of the
lower-middle income countries range between US$2,300 and US$10,111, and only four
countries (Indonesia, Egypt, Morocco and Jordan) have a GNI value which is above the average
GNI value for the Medium Human Development category (US$6.281). Index values for the
second dimension, life expectancy at birth, range between 51.9 (Cote d’Ivoire) and 74,3
(Morocco) of which nearly more than half are below the average index value for the MHD
category (68.6). For the third dimension, mean years of schooling, the index values of this group
vary between 3 (Yemen) and 12.2 (Uzbekistan), and more than one third of them are above the
average index value (6.6). Regarding the fourth dimension, expected years of schooling, nearly
three-fourth of these countries have an index value less than the average index value (11.5),
ranging between 6.3 (Djibouti) and 13.1 (Jordan and Egypt).