Qualifying Countries

We recognise the following countries as identified by the World Bank :

Low-income economies

Afghanistan Guinea Rwanda
Benin Guinea-Bissau Senegal
Burkina Faso Haiti Sierra Leone
Burundi Korea, Dem. People’s Rep. Somalia
Central African Republic Liberia South Sudan
Chad Madagascar Tanzania
Comoros Malawi Togo
Congo, Dem. Rep Mali Uganda
Eritrea Mozambique Zimbabwe
Ethiopia Nepal
Gambia, The Niger

Lower-middle-income economies

Angola Indonesia Philippines
Armenia Jordan São Tomé and Principe
Bangladesh Kenya Solomon Islands
Bhutan Kiribati Sri Lanka
Bolivia Kosovo Sudan
Cabo Verde Kyrgyz Republic Swaziland
Cambodia Lao PDR Syrian Arab Republic
Cameroon Lesotho Tajikistan
Congo, Rep. Mauritania Timor-Leste
Côte d’Ivoire Micronesia, Fed. Sts. Tunisia
Djibouti Moldova Ukraine
Egypt, Arab Rep. Mongolia Uzbekistan
El Salvador Morocco Vanuatu
Georgia Myanmar Vietnam
Ghana Nicaragua West Bank and Gaza
Guatemala Nigeria Yemen, Rep.
Honduras Pakistan Zambia
India Papua New Guinea

 

Upper-middle-income economies

lbania Ecuador Nauru
Algeria Fiji Panama
American Samoa Gabon Paraguay
Argentina Grenada Peru
Azerbaijan Guyana Romania
Belarus Iran, Islamic Rep. Russian Federation
Belize Iraq Samoa
Bosnia and Herzegovina Jamaica Serbia
Botswana Kazakhstan South Africa
Brazil Lebanon St. Lucia
Bulgaria Libya St. Vincent and the Grenadines
China Macedonia, FYR Suriname
Colombia Malaysia Thailand
Costa Rica Maldives Tonga
Croatia Marshall Islands Turkey
Cuba Mauritius Turkmenistan
Dominica Mexico Tuvalu
Dominican Republic Montenegro Venezuela, RB
Equatorial Guinea Namibia