Classification of economies by income and region, 1998 | ||||||||||
Europe and | Middle East | |||||||||
Sub-Saharan Africa | Asia | Central Asia | and North Africa | |||||||
East and | Eastern | |||||||||
Income | Southern | West | East Asia | South | Europe and | Rest of | Middle | North | ||
group | Subgroup | Africa | Africa | and Pacific | Asia | Central Asia | Europe | East | Africa | Americas |
Low- | Angola | Benin | Cambodia | Afghanistan | Armenia | Yemen, Rep. | Guyana | |||
income | Burundi | Burkina Faso | China | Bangladesh | Azerbaijan | Haiti | ||||
Comoros | Cameroon | Lao PDR | Bhutan | Bosnia and | Honduras | |||||
Congo, Dem. | Central African | Mongolia | India | Herzegovina | Nicaragua | |||||
Rep. /a | Republic | Myanmar | Nepal | Kyrgyz Republic | ||||||
Eritrea | Chad | Vietnam | Pakistan | Moldova | ||||||
Ethiopia | Congo, Rep. | Sri Lanka | Tajikistan | |||||||
Kenya | Côte d'Ivoire | |||||||||
Lesotho | Equatorial | |||||||||
Madagascar | Guinea | |||||||||
Malawi | Gambia, The | |||||||||
Mozambique | Ghana | |||||||||
Rwanda | Guinea | |||||||||
Somalia | Guinea-Bissau | |||||||||
Sudan | Liberia | |||||||||
Tanzania | Mali | |||||||||
Uganda | Mauritania | |||||||||
Zambia | Niger | |||||||||
Zimbabwe | Nigeria | |||||||||
São Tomé | ||||||||||
and Principe | ||||||||||
Senegal | ||||||||||
Sierra Leone | ||||||||||
Togo | ||||||||||
Middle- | Lower | Botswana | Cape Verde | Fiji | Maldives | Albania | Turkey | Iran, Islamic | Algeria | Belize |
income | Djibouti | Indonesia | Belarus | Rep. | Egypt, Arab | Bolivia | ||||
Namibia | Kiribati | Bulgaria | Iraq | Rep. | Colombia | |||||
Swaziland | Korea, Dem. | Estonia | Jordan | Morocco | Costa Rica | |||||
Rep. | Georgia | Lebanon | Tunisia | Cuba | ||||||
Marshall | Kazakhstan | Syrian Arab | Dominica | |||||||
Islands | Latvia | Republic | Dominican | |||||||
Micronesia, | Lithuania | West Bank | Republic | |||||||
Fed. Sts. | Macedonia, | and Gaza | Ecuador | |||||||
Papua New | FYR /b | El Salvador | ||||||||
Guinea | Romania | Grenada | ||||||||
Philippines | Russian | Guatemala | ||||||||
Samoa | Federation | Jamaica | ||||||||
Solomon | Turkmenistan | Panama | ||||||||
Islands | Ukraine | Paraguay | ||||||||
Thailand | Uzbekistan | Peru | ||||||||
Tonga | Yugoslavia, | St. Vincent and | ||||||||
Vanuatu | Fed. Rep. /c | the Grenadines | ||||||||
Suriname | ||||||||||
Venezuela | ||||||||||
Upper | Mauritius | Gabon | American | Croatia | Isle of Man | Bahrain | Libya | Antigua and | ||
Mayotte | Samoa | Czech | Malta | Oman | Barbuda | |||||
Seychelles | Malaysia | Republic | Saudi | Argentina | ||||||
South Africa | Palau | Hungary | Arabia | Barbados | ||||||
Poland | Brazil | |||||||||
Slovak | Chile | |||||||||
Republic | Guadeloupe | |||||||||
Slovenia | Mexico | |||||||||
Puerto Rico | ||||||||||
St. Kitts and | ||||||||||
Nevis | ||||||||||
St. Lucia | ||||||||||
Trinidad | ||||||||||
and Tobago | ||||||||||
Uruguay | ||||||||||
Subtotal | 158 | 26 | 23 | 22 | 8 | 27 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 34 |
High- | OECD | Australia | Austria | Canada | ||||||
income | Japan | Belgium | United States | |||||||
Korea, Rep. | Denmark | |||||||||
New Zealand | Finland | |||||||||
France | ||||||||||
Germany | ||||||||||
Greece | ||||||||||
Iceland | ||||||||||
Ireland | ||||||||||
Italy | ||||||||||
Luxembourg | ||||||||||
Netherlands | ||||||||||
Norway | ||||||||||
Portugal | ||||||||||
Spain | ||||||||||
Sweden | ||||||||||
Switzerland | ||||||||||
United | ||||||||||
Kingdom | ||||||||||
Non- | Reunion | Brunei | Andorra | Israel | Aruba | |||||
OECD | French Polynesia | Channel | Kuwait | Bahamas, The | ||||||
Guam | Islands | Qatar | Bermuda | |||||||
Hong Kong, China /d | Cyprus | United Arab | Cayman Islands | |||||||
Macao | Faeroe | Emirates | French Guiana | |||||||
New Caledonia | Islands | Martinique | ||||||||
N. Mariana | Greenland | Netherlands | ||||||||
Islands | Liechtenstein | Antilles | ||||||||
Singapore | Monaco | Virgin | ||||||||
OAE /e | Islands (U.S.) | |||||||||
Total | 211 | 27 | 23 | 35 | 8 | 27 | 28 | 14 | 5 | 44 |
Note: This table classifies all World Bank member economies with populations of more than 30,000. Economies are divided among income groups according | ||||||||||
to 1996 GNP per capita, calculated using the World Bank Atlas method. Income groups are defined as follows: low-income, $785 or less; lower-middle- | ||||||||||
income, $786–3,115; upper-middle-income, $3,116-9,635; and high-income, $9,636 or more. | ||||||||||
For operational and analytical purposes, the World Bank's main criterion for classifying economies is gross national product (GNP) per capita. Classification | ||||||||||
by income does not necessarily reflect development status, although low-income and middle-income economies are usually referred to as developing | ||||||||||
economies. The use of the term is convenient; it is not intended to imply that all economies in the group are experiencing similar development or that other | ||||||||||
economies have reached a preferred or final stage of development. |
Last Update: 8/30/98
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