COMCEC Poverty Outlook 2016:
Human Development in OIC
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two-thirds are above the average GNI value for the High Human Development (HHD) category,
which is US$14,091. Index values for the second dimension, life expectancy at birth, are
between 64.4 (Gabon) and 79.3 (Lebanon) of which more than half are below the average life
expectancy at birth value for the HHD category (74.4). Regarding the third dimension, mean
years of schooling, nearly two-third of the upper-middle income OIC countries have an index
value that is lower than the average index value, which is 8.1), and ranges between 5.8
(Maldives) and 11.4 (Kazakhstan). Lastly, for more than half of these countries’ index values
for the fourth dimension, expected years of schooling, are below the average index value,
which is 12.9, and range between 10.1 (Iraq) and 15.1 (Iran).
Figure 14: HDI Values of Upper-Middle Income OIC Member Countries
Source: UNDP, 2015.
Multidimensional Poverty Index
Among upper-middle income countries, MPI is lowest in Jordan and Kazakhstan (0.004) and
highest in Gabon (0.073). Indeed, while the multidimensional poverty rate is between 1 and 3
percent in Jordan, Kazakhstan, Albania, Tunisia, Maldives and Azerbaijan, it is more than 7
percent in Suriname, Iraq and Gabon. When the multidimensional poverty rates of these
countries compared to their monetary poverty rates, it is seen that the rates of population
living in multidimensional poverty exceed the rates of population living in income poverty
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