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Figure 24: Annual growth rate in HDI of OIC Member States by income groups between 1990
and 2015
Source : Own calculations from UNDP (2016)
Note: The rates are calculated as the annual compound growth rate.
Although the HDI value increases with income, the association between income and HDI rank is
more ambiguous at the country level for the given income groups. The last column o
includes the difference between HDI rank and gross national income (GNI) rank for different
income groups. This difference is -6.1 on average for OIC implying that human development lags
behind the economic prosperity in the OIC member states in general. This difference is much
smaller for low and lower-middle income countries (2.1 and 0.6 respectively). However, it is
considerable higher for upper-middle income and high income countries. The difference for high
income group is almost -30 implying that this group was not able to translate its wealth into
human development as much as the other high income countries.
Table 5: Components of HDI by income groups, 2015
Life expectancy (years) Expected years of schooling (years) Mean years of schooling (years) G
OIC 67,4 11,3 6,6 1
Low income 58,9 9,2 3,2 1.
Lower middle income 66,3 10,4 6,6 4.
Upper middle income 72,6 13,1 8,6 1
High income 76,7 14,2 9,0 6
Source: Own calculations from UNDP (2015).
Note: The averages are unweighted. That is, each country in the groups has the same weight irrespective of its
population.
lso represents the level of different component of HDI. On OIC average, the life
expectancy is 67.4, the expected and mean years of schooling is 11.3 and 6.6 respectively and
GNI is $14,621. The level of all the 4 parameters increases by income group. For low income
group, the level of life expectancy andmean years of schooling are much lower than OIC average.
1,78
0,87
0,76
0,52
0,00
0,20
0,40
0,60
0,80
1,00
1,20
1,40
1,60
1,80
2,00
Low income Lower middle income Upper middle income High income