COMCEC Poverty Outlook 2016:
Human Development in OIC
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Guyana 25,4 22,7 19,0 17,3 14,4
Indonesia 34,8 32,5 25,3 26,5 22,1
Kyrgyz Republic − 24,1 20,2 14,3 9,4
Mauritania 40,0 36,6 33,5 29,6 22,6
Morocco 18,7 18,8 15,7 17,7 9,5
Nigeria 47,7 47,1 41,0 35,2 32,8
Pakistan 43,6 40,9 37,9 38,3 33,9
Tajikistan − 40,3 40,4 36,5 30,3
Uzbekistan − 23,7 21,9 18,5 13,3
Yemen, Rep. 44,4 44,4 42,9 42,1 34,2
Source: IFPRI , 2015.
Note: Index values for Palestine, Sudan and Syria are not calculated.
Low Income OIC Member Countries
Human Development Index
All the low income OIC counties are in the low human development (LHD) category. While the
highest HDI value is 0.503 and belongs to Comoros, with a position of 159 in the HDI ranking,
the lowest value is 0.348 and belongs to Niger, with a position of 188, which is also the lowest
position in this ranking .
Figure 18: HDI Values of Low Income OIC Member Countries
Source: UNDP, 2015 .
Note: Calculated index value for Somalia is not included in the index ranking.
Index values for the first dimension of HDI, GNI per capita (2011, PPP, US$), range between
US$908 (Niger) and US$1,885 (Afghanistan) in the low income group, and the GNI values of all
the countries in this group are below the average GNI value for the LHD category which is
US$3,085. Regarding the second dimension, life expectancy at birth the index values are
between 50.9 (Sierra Leone) and 63.3 (Comoros). For the third dimension, mean years of
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