Development and modernization of OIC member countries: A study based on selected indicators

• Main Authors: Md. Noon, Hazizan, Karim, AHM Zehadul, Uddin, Md. Sayed
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English; English; English
• Published: IIUM Press 2018
• Subjects: BP1 Islam; BP173 Islamic sociology; HM Sociology
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/64317/1/Published%20article%20on%20OIC%20in%20ID%20June%202018%20issue.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/64317/7/64317%20Development%20and%20modernization%20of%20OIC%20member%20countries_wos.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/64317/8/64317_Development%20and%20modernization%20of%20OIC%20member%20countries%20A%20study%20based%20on%20selected%20indicators_scopus.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/64317/9/64317Development%20and%20Modernization%20of%20OIC_article.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/64317/; http://journals.iium.edu.my/intdiscourse/index.php/islam/article/view/1122/747

This paper attempts to analyze the performance of 57 member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)based on selected indicators of some sectors namely demography, economics, education and technology and innovation. Specifically, it aims at firstly portraying an overview of OIC performance based on six selected indicators followed by analyzing the relationship between selected development variables with literacy and exploring the state of OIC performance as indicated by their achievement based on selected indicators. The study was undertaken vis-à-vis the prevailing theories on modernization and development as well as the widely asserted underdevelopment of the contemporary Muslim ummah as claimed by numerous contemporary Muslim scholars. The data were solicited among others from the World Bank Database, Statistical, Economic, and Social Research and Training, Centre of Islamic Countries (SESRIC) of OIC and some previous studies. They were then analyzed using SPSS with the results being generated mainly through the use of descriptive statistics. Among others, study found that there is a positive correlation between Muslim countries’ urban population growth and literacy rate, there is a steady decline in the number of OIC countries as they are categorized from lower to higher income category placement and the percentage of the scientific publications of all 57 OIC countries is far below that of any one single developed nation. Artikel ini bertujuan menganalisis prestasi 57 negara anggota Pertubuhan Kerjasama Islam (OIC) berdasarkan kepada beberapa petunjuk atau indikator dari beberapa sektor terpilih iaitu demografi, ekonomi, pendidikan dan teknologi dan inovasi. Secara khusus, ia bertujuan pertamanya untuk memberi gambaran menyeluruh tentang prestasi OIC berdasarkan kepada enam indikator terpilih diikuti dengan analisis hubungan antara beberapa pembolehubah berkaitan pembangunan dengan kadar celik huruf dan seterusnys meneroka prestasi OIC berdasarkan kepada pencapaian petunjuk-petunjuk yang dipilih itu. Kajian ini dilakukan di tengah-tengah perbicaraan mengenai teori-teori tentang pemodenan dan pembangunan serta perbahasan tentang kemunduran umat Islam masa kini seperti disentuh oleh ramai sarjana Islam kontemporari. Data-data yang digunakan diperoleh daripada sumber-sumber seperti Pangkalan Data Bank Dunia, Pusat Statistik, Ekonomi, Penyelidikan dan Latihan Negara Islam (SESRIC) dan beberapa kajian terdahulu. Data-data ini dianalisis dengan menggunakan SPSS terutamanya melalui penggunaan statistik deskriptif. Antara lain, kajian mendapati terdapat korelasi positif antara pertumbuhan populasi penduduk dan kadar celik huruf penduduk negara-negara Islam, penurunan bilangan negara OIC dari kategori berpendapatan rendah ke peringkat lebih tinggi dan peratusan penerbitan saintifik negara OIC secara kolektif yang jauh terkebawah berbanding mana-mana satu negara maju.