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The World Bank's Support to Middle Income Countries:
An IEG Review
Facts and Figures

 

Number of Middle Income Countries
86
Percent of the World’s Poor living in MICs
40%
Percent of the World’s Poor living in MICs (excluding China and India)
33%
Chance that a MIC is in Latin America or the Caribbean
1 in 3
Chance that a client country in the Middle East / North Africa is a MIC
5 in 6
Percent of world’s carbon emissions in MICs
41%
2004 per capita growth in OECD countries
2.8%
2004 per capita growth in MICs
6%
Highest per capita income among MICs
$10,000
Lowest per capita income among MICs
$950
Percent of MIC population living in China
43.5%
Percent of MIC population living in the 25 smallest states
0.3%




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