Country list of developing countries:

Least Developed Other Low Income Lower Middle Income Other countries
Countries Countries Countries and
(per capita GNI < $ Terrories
1005 in 2010) (per capita GNI $ 1006-
$ 3.975 in 2010)
Afghanistan Kenya Armenia Brazil
Angola Korea, Dem.Rep. Bolivia China*
Bangladesh Tajikistan Cameroon Colombia
Benin Zimbabwe Cabo Verde Cuba
Bhutan Congo Dominican Republic
Burkina Faso Cote dIvoire Ecuador
Burundi Egypt Jordan
Cambodia El Salvador Mexico
Central African Rep. Georgia Peru
Chad Ghana Suriname
Comoros Guatemala Thailand
Congo, Dem. Rep. Guyana Tunisia
Djibouti Honduras Uruguay
Equatorial Guinea India South Africa
Eritrea Indonesia
Ethiopia Kosovo
Gambia Kyrgyztan
Guinea Micronesia
Guinea-Bissau Moldova
Haiti Mongolia
Kiribati Morocco
Laos Peoples Nicaragua
Democratic Republic
Lesotho Nigeria
Liberia Pakistan
Madagascar Papua New Guinea
Malawi Paraguay
Mali Philippines
Mauritania Samoa
Mozambique Sri Lanka
Myanmar Swaziland
Nepal Syrian Arab Republic
Niger Tokelau
Rwanda Ukraine
So Tom and Principe Uzbekistan
Senegal Vietnam
Sierra Leone West Bank and Gaza
Strip
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Sudan
Sudan
Tanzania
Timor-Leste
Togo
Tuvalu
Uganda
Vanuatu
Yemen
Zambia

*CSC scholarship holders are not eligible to apply for a Doctoral grants for researchers from
developing countries (also see Parallel applications). CSC students are referred to the call Cofunding
for Chinese candidates PhD candidates holding a CSC scholarship (deadline October 2017).