COMCEC Poverty Outlook 2017
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Djibouti, Gambia, Mali, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Chad
and Niger are in low development category and these countries constitute 56.1 percent of this
category (23 out of 41). Considering that OIC member states constitute nearly 30 percent of the
countries that are included in HDR 2016 (56 out of 188), the figures imply OIC is significantly
underrepresented in very high category and significantly overrepresented in low development
category.