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Jun 30, 2023 · In 1987, 30% of reporting countries were classified as low income, while in 2022 only 12% fell into this category. The extent of this decline is different between world regions, with the Sub-Saharan African region’s proportion of low-income countries falling from 74% to 46% in 2022, East Asia Pacific from 26% to 3%, and South Asia from 100% ...
Jul 1, 2022 · The economy of Belize was severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and moved to the lower-middle-income group. In 2021, economic growth rebounded, led by tourist-related activities and investments, bringing Belize back to its prior classification as an upper-middle-income country. The economies of Panama and Romania were each also ...
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Jul 1, 2020 · The World Bank assigns the world’s economies to four income groups—low, lower-middle, upper-middle, and high-income countries. The classifications are updated each year on July 1 and are based on GNI per capita in current USD (using the Atlas method exchange rates) of the previous year (i.e. 2020 in this case).
Low-income countries are those with a gross national income (GNI) per capita of $1,135 or less in 2022. Lower-middle-income countries are those with a GNI per capita between $1,136 and $4,465 in 2022. Upper-middle-income countries are those with a GNI per capita between $4,466 and $13,845 in 2022. High-income countries are those with a GNI per ...
Apr 21, 2018 · The world by income. The World Bank classifies economies for analytical purposes into four income groups: low, lower-middle, upper-middle, and high income. For this purpose it uses gross national income (GNI) per capita data in U.S. dollars, converted from local currency using the World Bank Atlas method, which is applied to smooth exchange ...
Four UN members (Cuba, Liechtenstein, Monaco and North Korea) do not belong to the IMF hence their economies are not ranked below. Kosovo, despite not being a member of the United Nations, is a member of IMF. Taiwan is not a IMF member but it is still listed in the official IMF indices. Several leading GDP-per-capita (nominal) jurisdictions may ...
Just since 2003, the number of low-income countries has nearly halved, declining from 66 to 31 in 2019. The number of high-income countries is currently 80, up from less than 50 in the 1990s. The number of middle-income countries is 107 (60 UMICs and 47 LMICs) and has not changed much as countries have transitioned both in and out of this group.
