Countries – Categories A, B, C

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	Greenland	Luxembourg	Singapore
Antigua & Barbuda	Channel Islands	Guam	Malta	Slovakia
Antilles	Cyprus	Hong Kong	Monaco	Slovenia
Aruba	Czech Rep.	Hungary	Netherlands	Spain
Australia	Denmark	Iceland	New Caledonia	Sweden
Austria	Ecuatorial Guinea	Ireland	New Zealand	Switzerland
Bahamas	Estonia	Isle of Man	Norway	Taiwan
Bahrain	Faeroe Islands	Israel	Oman	Trinidad and Tobago
Barbados	Finland	Italy	Portugal	United Arab Emirates
Belgium	France	Japan	Puerto Rico	United Kingdom
Bermuda	French Polynesia	Korea	Qatar	United States
Brunei	Germany	Kuwait	San Marino	Virgin Islands
Canada	Greece	Liechtenstein	Saudi Arabia

CATEGORY B

American Samoa	Costa Rica	Lebanon	Palau	Serbia
Argentina	Croatia	Libya	Panama	Seychelles
Belarus	Dominica	Lithuania	Poland	South Africa
Belize	Gabon	Malaysia	Romania	Turkey
Botswana	Grenada	Mauritius	Russia	Uruguay
Brazil	Jamaica	Mayotte	St. Kitts and Nevis	Venezuela
Bulgaria	Kazakhstan	Mexico	St. Lucia
Chile	Latvia	Montenegro	St. Vincent & Grenad.

CATEGORY C

Afghanistan	Cuba	Ivory Coast	Namibia	Tajikistan
Albania	Djibouti	Jordan	Nepal	Tanzania
Algeria	Dominican Rep.	Kenya	Nicaragua	Thailand
Angola	Ecuador	Kiribati	Niger	Timor - Leste
Armenia	Egypt	Kyrgyzstan	Nigeria	Togo
Azerbaijan	El Salvador	Lao	Pakistan	Tonga
Bangladesh	Eritrea	Lesotho	Papua New Guinea	Tunisia
Benin	Ethiopia	Liberia	Paraguay	Turkmenistan
Bhutan	Fiji	Macedonia	Peru	Uganda
Bolivia	Gambia	Madagascar	Philippines	Ukraine
Bosnia-Herzegovina	Georgia	Malawi	Rwanda	Uzbekistan
Burkina Faso	Ghana	Maldives	Samoa	Vanuatu
Burundi	Guatemala	Mali	St. Tome & Principe	Vietnam
Cambodia	Guinea-Bissau	Marshall Islands	Senegal	West Bank & Gaza
Cameroon	Guinea Rep.	Mauritania	Sierra Leone	Yemen
Cape Verde	Guyana	Micronesia	Solomon Islands	Zambia
Central African Rep	Haiti	Moldova	Somalia	Zimbabwe
Chad	Honduras	Mongolia	Sri Lanka
China	India	Montenegro	Sudan
Colombia	Indonesia	Morocco	Suriname
Comoros	Irak	Mozambique	Swaziland
Congo	Iran	Myanmar	Syria