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Classification of Economies by Income and Region, 2000

Income
groups
Subgroups Sub-Saharan Africa Asia Europe and Central Asia Middle East
and North Africa
America
East
and South
Africa
West
Africa
East
Asia and
Pacific
South
Asia
Eastern
Europe
and Central Asia
Rest of
Europe
Middle
East
North
Africa
Low-income  

Angola
Burundi
Comoros

Congo, Dem. Rep.
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Kenya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mozambique
Rwanda
Somali
Sudan
Tanzania
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe

Benin
Burkina Faso
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Congo, Rep.
Cote d`Ivoire
Gambia, The
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Liberia
Mali
Mauritania
Niger
Nigeria
Sao Tome and Principe
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Togo

Cambodia
Indonesia
Korea, Dem. Rep.
Lao PDR
Mongolia
Myanmar
Solomon Islands
Vietnam

Afghanistan
Bangladesh
Bhutan
India
Nepal
Pakistan

Armenia
Azerbaijan
Georgia
Kyrgyz Republic
Moldova
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Ukraine
Uzbekistan

  Yemen, Rep.   Haiti
Nicaragua
Middle-income Lower Namibia
Swaziland
Cape Verde
Equatorial
Guinea
China
Fiji
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.
Papua New Guinea
Philippines
Samoa
Thailand
Tonga
Vanuatu
Maldives
Sri Lanka
Albania
Belarus
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Kazakhstan
Latvia
Lithuania
Macedonia, FYR (a)
Romania
Russian Federation
Yugoslavia, Fed. Rep.(b)
Turkey Iran, Islamic Rep.
Iraq
Jordan
Syrian Arab Rep.
West Bank and
Gaza
Algeria
Djibouti
Egypt, Arab Rep.
Morocco
Tunisia
Belize
Bolivia
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Guatemala
Guyana
Honduras
Jamaica
Paraguay
Peru
St. Vincent and
the Grenadines
Suriname
Upper Botswana
Mauritius
Mayotte
Seychelles
South Africa
Gabon American Samoa
Malaysia
Korea, Rep.
Palau
  Croatia
Czech Rep.
Estonia
Hungary
Poland
Slovak Rep.
Isle of Man

Bahrain
Lebanon
Oman
Saudi Arabia

Libya
Malta
Antigua and
Barbuda
Argentina
Barbados
Brazil
Chile
Dominica
Grenada
Mexico
Panama
Puerto Rico
St. Kitts and
Nevis
St. Lucia
Trinidad
and Tobago
Uruguay
Venezuela, RB
High-income OECD
countries
    Australia
Japan
New Zealand
    Austria
Belgium
Denmark
Finland
France (c)
Germany
Greece
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Norway
Portugal
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United
Kingdom
    Canada
United States
Non-OECD
countries
    Brunei
French
Polynesia
Guam
Hong Kong,
China (d)
Macao,
China (e)
New
Caledonia
N. Mariana
Islands
Singapore
Taiwan, China
   Slovenia Andorra
Channel Islands
Cyprus
Faeroe Islands
Greenland
Liechtenstein
Monaco
Israel
Kuwait
Qatar
United Arab Emirates
  Aruba
Bahamas, The
Bermuda
Cayman
Islands
Netherlands
Antilles
Virgin
Islands (U.S.)
Total 207 25 23 35 8 27 27 14 7 41


a. Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
b. Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia/Montenegro).
c. The French overseas departments French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Réunion are included in France.
d. On 1 July 1997 China resumed its exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong.
e. On 20 December 1999 China resumed it exercise of sovereignty over Macao.

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