COMCEC Poverty Outlook 2016:
Human Development in OIC
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Lower-Middle Income OIC Countries
Human Development Index
In the lower-middle income group, more than half of the countries are in the low human
development category, namely Pakistan, Cameroon, Nigeria, Yemen, Mauritania, Senegal,
Sudan, Djibouti and Cote d’Ivoire and the rest is in the medium human development category,
namely Bangladesh, Egypt, Guyana, Indonesia, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan
and Uzbekistan . The highest HDI value is 0.69 and belongs to Egypt, with a position
of 108 in the HDI ranking, while the lowest value is 0.462 and belongs to Côte d’Ivoire, with a
position of 172.
Regarding the first dimension of HDI, GNI per capita (2011, PPP, US$) the index values of the
lower-middle income countries range between US$2,188 and US$10,512, and only two
countries (Indonesia and Egypt) have a GNI value which is above the average GNI value for the
Medium Human Development category (US$6.906). Index values for the second dimension, life
expectancy at birth, range between 51.5 (Cote d’Ivoire) and 74 (Morocco) of which more than
three-fifths are below the average index value for the MHD category (68.4). For the third
dimension, mean years of schooling, the index values of this group vary between 2.5 (Senegal)
and 10,9 (Uzbekistan), and less than one third of them are above the average index value (8.1).
Regarding the fourth dimension, expected years of schooling, nearly three-fourth of these
countries have an index value less than the average index value (12.2), ranging between 6.4
(Djibouti) and 13.5 (Egypt).
Figure 16: HDI Values of Lower-Middle Income OIC Member Countries
Source: The UNDP, 2014.
Multidimensional Poverty Index
MPI values for the lower-middle income OIC Member Countries are in the range of 0.006
(Kyrgyzstan) – 0.307 (Cote d’Ivore).19 In the lower-middle income group, half of these
19 See Annex 8.
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