classification of economies Low- and middle-income economies
Greenland (Den.)
East Asia & Pacific Europe & Central Asia
Faeroe Islands (Den)
Iceland
Latin America & Caribbean
The Netherlands
Middle East & North Africa
C a n a d a
South Asia
United Kingdom
Isle of Man (UK)
Sub-Saharan Africa
Ireland
Channel Islands (UK)
High-income economies
Fra
Luxembourg Liechtenstein
OECD Other
U n i t e d
Andorra
S t a t e s
Monaco
no data
Mexico
Cayman Islands (UK) Belize
British Virgin Islands (UK)
The Bahamas
Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)
Cuba
Guatemala Honduras Aruba (Neth) El Salvador Nicaragua Panama Costa Rica
Alg
Western Sahara
Sint Maarten (Neth) St. Kitts and Nevis Antigua and Barbuda
Haiti
Jamaica
Morocco
US Virgin Islands (US) St. Martin (Fr)
Dominican Republic Puerto Rico (US)
Cape Verde
Guadeloupe (Fr)
Dominica
Martinique (Fr)
St. Lucia
The Gambia
Barbados Trinidad St. Vincent and the Grenadines Grenada and Tobago R.B. de French Guiana Venezuela Guyana (Fr) Colombia
Curaçao (Neth) Kiribati
Suriname Ecuador
Peru
Spain
Portugal
Gibraltar (UK)
Bermuda (UK)
Mauritania Mali
Senegal Guinea-Bissau
Burkina Faso Benin
Guinea
Sierra Leone Liberia
Côte Ghana d'Ivoire
São Tomé and Príncipe
B r a z i l
French Polynesia (Fr) Bolivia
Paraguay
Uruguay
Chile Argentina
The World Bank classifies economies as lowincome, middle-income (subdivided into lower-middle and upper-middle), or highincome based on gross national income (GNI) per capita. Low- and middle-income economies are sometimes referred to as developing economies. This is not intended
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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. The regions used in this atlas are based on the regions defined by the World Bank for analytical and operational purposes.