The country profiles obtained from the Pilot 2006 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) are snapshots of each individual country, reflecting its performance within the Pilot 2006 Environmental Performance Index. In the box in the upper right hand side of the country profiles, EPI scores of each country as well as their overall rankings, income group averages and geographic group averages are shown. Country profile also includes a bar chart to reflect the performances of each of the OIC members on the six policy categories. The indicators used in the construction of policy categories are listed individually below the bar chart. These indicators include values, targets on the indicators used, and scores ranging from 0 to 100 to show how close the country is to the target. A score of 100 implies that the country has fully met the target, and a score of 0 indicates the worst performance in ranking the target.
A concise summary of the information regarding the EPI and its sub-components presented in the tabular form is also included. In this section, environmental performance of individual countries is analyzed in a comparative manner. In that respect, it compares the world average scores on each of the policy categories with those of each OIC country. This provides us with information in which category or categories the OIC countries performed better than the world average. In categories where a poorer performance was observed than the world average, indicators that led to this outcome were identified and referred to as priority policy areas for improving the overall performance of the OIC members.
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