A RANKING OF ISLAMIC COUNTRIES IN TERMS OF THEIR

 LEVELS OF  SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

No.

Low-Income Countries

Middle-Income Countries

High-Income Countries

 

less than US$ 725

US$ 725 - 8955

more than US$ 8955

1.

Afghanistan

Algeria

Brunei

2.

Albania

Bahrain

Kuwait

3.

Azerbaijan

Djibouti

Qatar

4.

Bangladesh

Gabon

U.A.E.

5.

Benin

Indonesia

 

6.

Burkina Faso

Iran

 

7.

Cameroon

Egypt

 

8.

Chad

Jordan

 

9.

Comoros

Kazakhstan

 

10.

Iraq

Lebanon

 

11.

Gambia

Libya

 

12.

Guinea

Malaysia

 

13.

Guinea-Bissau

Maldives

 

14.

Kyrgyzstan

Morocco

 

15.

Mali

Oman

 

16.

Mauritania

Saudi Arabia

 

17.

Mozambique

Syria

 

18.

Niger

Tunisia

 

19.

Nigeria

Turkey

 

20.

Pakistan

Turkmenistan

 

21.

Senegal

Uzbekistan

 

22.

Sierra Leone

 

 

23.

Somalia

 

 

24.

Sudan

 

 

25.

Tajikistan

 

 

26.

Uganda

 

 

27.

Yemen

 

 

 

Source: Aslı Güveli, Serdar Kılıçkaplan

Journal of Economic Cooperation 21, 1 (2000) 97-114