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Table 1 Country rankings by respective index and country-specific data on proportion of people older than 65 and GDP per capita

From: A survey of knowledge-to-action pathways of aging policies and programs in the Arab region: the role of institutional arrangements

Countries

Overall rankinga

Enabling constructs

Mediating construct

Outcomes policies and programs

Country-specific data

Institutional arrangements (IA)

Knowledge creation (KC)

Knowledge translation (KT)

Social (SP)

Health (HP)

Percentage of population over 65 (2012) [2]

GDP per capita (international $) (2012) [36]

Bahrain

1

1

10

1

1

1

2.3

41,463

Syria

2

3

1

2

4

7

4.3

Palestine

3

2

2

5

2

6

3.1

4,929

Lebanon

4

5

2

3

6

1

8.8

16,931

Egypt

5

3

2

5

8

5

5.9

10,875

Jordan

6

7

2

10

3

3

3.6

11,544

Qatar

7

9

7

8

4

7

0.9

133,341

Oman

8

7

12

5

8

3

3.0

44,851

Libya

9

6

7

10

11

11

5.0

23,446

Morocco

10

11

9

12

13

7

5.1

6,898

Sudan

11

10

10

9

7

14

3.3

3,926

Algeria

12

13

13

4

12

13

4.7

13,008

Iraq

13

12

14

14

10

10

3.2

14,806

Yemen

14

14

6

13

14

12

3.0

3,833

Djibouti

15

15

15

14

15

15

4.1

2,857

Somalia

16

16

16

14

16

15

2.8

Median (out of 100)

69.5

45.9

30.2

47.5

66.1

  

Interquartile range (IQR)

28, 82

29, 61

12, 48

30, 54

31, 74

  
  1. Note: percentage of population over 65 years is deflated in countries with very high non-national migrant worker populations (such as Bahrain and Qatar)
  2. aOverall ranking is based on summative raw scores of the five constructs