COMCEC Poverty Outlook 2016:

Human Development in OIC

Figure 3: Share of Income Level Categories for Countries with Multidimensional Poverty (%)

Source: Own calculations from

UNDP (2015.

The percentages of the deprived population vary significantly within the same income group

countries. Looking at the contribution of deprivation in education (namely years of schooling

and child school attendance) to overall poverty, it is seen that for high it ranges between 1.5

and 2.2 percent for high income countries, 2.6 and 50.1 percent for upper-middle income

countries, 3.4 and 54.7 percent for lower-middle income countries and 10.8 and 45.6 for low

income countries. The range for health is much wider. It changes between 86.1 and 95.9

percent for high income countries, between 24.7 and 89.70 percent for upper-middle income

countries, 12.6 and 87.8 percent for lower-middle income countries and 1.3 and 77.5 percent

for low income countries. Likewise, the contribution of deprivation in living standards

indicator ranges from 2.6 to 11.7 percent for high income countries, from 3.5 to 50.8 percent

for upper-middle income, from 7.8 to 56.6 percent in lower-middle income and from 3.5 to

54.9 percent in low income group. The difference between the deprivation levels of the MPI

indicators among different income group countries is striking.

State of Hunger

According to FAO, there are 54 low-income food-deficit countries in total, of which 37 are in

Africa, 12 are in Asia, 3 are in Americas and 2 are in Oceania.

To comprehend the hunger

situation of the countries, it is helpful to look at the GHI values. In this regard, according to the

GHI trend between 2000 and 2015, severity of hunger is found to be decreasing globally.

Indeed, while the value of the 2000 GHI for the world was 29.9, this value is 21.7 for 2015,

Own calculations from UNDP(2015).

FAO, 2015. Low-income food-deficit countries are the countries with a net income per person that falls below

the level used by the World Bank to determine eligibility for IDA assistance and net importers of food. For full

list of low-income-food-deficit countries. See Annex 6.

Low income

29%

Lower-middle

income

40%

Upper-middle

income

29%

High income