COMCEC Poverty Outlook 2017
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Figure 18: HDI Values of Low Income OIC Member Countries
Source: UNDP, 2016 .
Note: Calculated index value for Somalia is not included in the index ranking.
Index values for the first dimension of HDI, GNI per capita (2011, PPP, US$), range between
US$889 (Niger) and US$2,250 (Senegal) in the low income group, and the GNI values of all the
countries in this group are below the average GNI value for the LHD category which is US$2,649.
Regarding the second dimension, life expectancy at birth the index values are between 51.3
(Sierra Leone) and 66.9 (Senegal). For the third dimension, mean years of schooling, the index
values of this group vary between 1.4 (Burkina Faso) and 5.7 (Uganda), and only three countries
(Comoros, Togo and Uganda) have index values above the LHD average value which is 4.6. Index
values for the fourth dimension, expected years of schooling, is the best among the HDI
dimensions, since almost half of the low income countries have an index value which is above
the LHD average index value (9.3) ranging between 5.4 (Niger) and 12 (Togo).
Multidimensional Poverty Index
MPI values for the low income OIC Member Countries are between 0.165 (Comoros) and 0.584
(Niger).21 For all the countries Except Comoros and Togo in this income group, the rates of the
population in multidimensional poverty are higher than 50 percent . The highest
share belongs to Niger with almost 90 percent. The share of population in severe
multidimensional poverty ranges between 14.9 percent (Comoros) and 73.5 percent (Niger),
and 6 out of 16 low income OIC countries’ more than half of the population are in severe poverty.
21 See Annex 8.
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