D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation

D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation
Formation1996
1997 (1 Summit)
Legal statusIntergovernmental organization
HeadquartersIstanbul, Turkey
Membership
Secretary-General
Sohail Mahmood
President
Badr Abdul Ati
Chairman
Prabowo Subianto
Websitewww.developing8.org

The D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation, also known as Developing-8, is an organisation for development co-operation among Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Turkey. Azerbaijan was admitted to the organization as the 9th member on 19 December 2024.

The combined population of the eight countries is about 1.2 billion or 60% of all Muslims, or close to 13% of the world's population and covering an area of 7.6 million square kilometers, 5% of world land area. In 2006, trade between the D-8 member states stood at $35 billion, and it was around $68 billion in 2010. Transactions between the eight developing countries accounted for 3.3 percent of world trade in 2010. The total nominal GDP of the eight nations was around 4.92 trillion as of 2023.