SESRIC released the 2024 edition of its Statistical Yearbook on OIC Member Countries on 1 August 2025.

The Statistical Yearbook on OIC Member Countries 2024 presents 253 socio-economic statistical indicators under 22 thematic categories for the period between 2000 and 2023, based on the OIC Statistics Database (OICStat).

The categories covered include Agriculture, Banking, Money and Prices, Demography, Disasters and Emergency Events, Education, Energy, Environment, Gender, Health, Industry and Manufacturing, International Finance, International Trade, Islamic Banking and Finance, Labour and Social Protection, National Accounts, Science, Technology and Innovation, Social Development, Tobacco Control, Tourism, Transportation and Communication, Water, and Youth.

First released in 1980, the content of the subsequent editions of the Statistical Yearbook has been continuously revised and enriched. The 2024 edition indicates that the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have largely disappeared from the statistical landscape, with 2023 levels exceeding those of 2019 across many indicators. Human Development Index (HDI) scores rose in nearly every OIC country, access to electricity reached 84.6% in 2022, industrial employment increased to 21.6% in 2023, and unemployment fell to 5.3%, dropping below pre-COVID-19 levels. The OIC countries also collectively maintained a current account surplus equivalent to 1.2% of GDP in 2023, while the Islamic finance industry continued its growth momentum.

Despite these positive trends, several challenges persist. Price pressures remain elevated, the manufacturing trade deficit widened in 2023, and reliance on agricultural imports continues. OIC countries also hosted nearly one million more refugees compared to the previous year, highlighting growing humanitarian pressures. Water stress and rising public debt further underscore structural vulnerabilities.

The Statistical Yearbook serves as a reference publication for evidence-based decision making concerning possible areas of cooperation and integration at the OIC level, thereby contributing to increasing statistical awareness among decision makers in OIC countries. To this end, it allows readers to monitor the performance of individual countries as well as that of the OIC as a group vis-à-vis the world average in all the selected indicators.

Online Electronic Version

• Statistical Yearbook on OIC Member Countries 2024 (English)