Table of Countries by Category
Source: For operational and analytical purposes, the World Bank’s main criterion for classifying economies is gross national income (GNI) per capita. This classification does not necessarily reflect development status.The World Bank, September 2008, www.worldbank.org
CATEGORY A
Andorra Cayman Islands Guam Monaco Sweden
Antigua & Barbuda Channel Islands Hong Kong Netherlands Switzerland
Antilles

Cyprus

Iceland New Caledonia Taiwan
Aruba Czech Rep. Ireland New Zealand Trinidad and Tobago
Australia Denmark Isle of Man Norway United Arab Emirates
Austria Estonia Israel Portugal United Kingdom
Bahamas Faeroe Islands Italy Puerto Rico United States
Bahrain
Finland Japan Qatar Virgin Islands
Barbados France Korea San Marino  
Belgium French Polynesia Kuwait Saudi Arabia  
Bermuda Germany Liechtenstein Singapore  
Brunei Greece Luxembourg Slovenia  
Canada Greenland Malta Spain  
 
CATEGORY B
American Samoa Croatia Lebanon Oman St. Vincent & Grenad.
Argentina Dominica Libya Palau Serbia
Belize Equatorial Guinea Lithuania Panama Seychelles
Botswana Gabon Malaysia Poland Slovakia
Brazil Grenada Mauritius Romania South Africa
Bulgaria Hungary Mayotte Russia Turkey
Chile Kazakhstan Mexico St. Kitts and Nevis Uruguay
Costa Rica Latvia Northern Mariana Isl. St. Lucia Venezuela
 
CATEGORY C
Afghanistan Congo Iran Mozambique Swaziland
Albania Cuba Ivory Coast Myanmar Syria
Algeria Djibouti Jamaica Namibia Tajikistan
Angola Dominican Rep. Jordan Nepal Tanzania
Armenia Ecuador Kenya Nicaragua Thailand
Azerbaijan Egypt Kiribati Niger Timor - Leste
Bangladesh El Salvador Kyrgyzstan Nigeria Togo
Belarus Eritrea Lao Pakistan Tonga
Benin Ethiopia Lesotho Papua New Guinea Tunisia
Bhutan Fiji Liberia Paraguay Turkmenistan
Bolivia Gambia Macedonia Peru Uganda
Bosnia-Herzegovina Georgia Madagascar Philippines Ukraine
Burkina Faso Ghana Malawi Rwanda Uzbekistan
Burundi Guatemala Maldives Samoa Vanuatu
Cambodia Guinea-Bissau Mali St. Tome & Principe Vietnam
Cameroon Guinea Rep. Marshall Islands Senegal West Bank & Gaza
Cape Verde Guyana Mauritania Sierra Leone Yemen
Central African Rep. Haiti Micronesia Solomon Islands Zambia
Chad Honduras Moldova Somalia Zimbabwe
China India Mongolia Sri Lanka  
Colombia Indonesia Montenegro Sudan  
Comoros Irak Morocco Suriname  

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