Low- and middle-income countries, by region and subregion

The Adding It Up 2019 project produced estimates for 132 countries classified by the World Bank as being low- or middle-income countries (LMICs) on the basis of their having a 2018 per capita GNI of $US12,375 or less. The Adding It Up analysis excluded the following LMICs because they did not have United Nations (UN) population or birth data: American Samoa, Dominica, Marshall Islands, Nauru and Tuvalu. In addition, per UN World Population Prospects classifications, Kosovo was combined with Serbia for all calculations.

 

Africa

  • Eastern Africa: Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  • Middle Africa: Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Sao Tome and Principe
  • Northern Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia
  • Southern Africa: Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa
  • Western Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo

 

Asia

  • Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
  • Eastern Asia: China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), Mongolia
  • Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Viet Nam
  • Southern Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Iran, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  • Western Asia: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, State of Palestine, Syrian Arab Republic, Türkiye, Yemen

 

Europe

  • Eastern Europe: Belarus, Bulgaria, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Ukraine
  • Southern Europe: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia

 

Latin America and the Caribbean

  • Caribbean: Cuba, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  • Central America: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua
  • South America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela

 

Oceania

  • Melanesia: Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu
  • Micronesia: Kiribati, Micronesia
  • Polynesia: Samoa, Tonga

 

Source: World Bank, World Bank Country and Lending Groups, 2020 fiscal year.