List of developing countries as declared by the Minister for Foreign Affairs

Cabo Verde South Africa

EUROPE
Central African Republic South Sudan
Albania Chad Sudan
Armenia Comoros Tanzania
Azerbaijan Congo Togo
Belarus Congo (Democratic Uganda
Bosnia & Herzegovina Republic of the)
Zambia
Georgia Cote d'Ivoire
Zimbabwe
Hungary Djibouti
Equatorial Guinea AMERICA
Kosovo
Macedonia (Former Eritrea N ORTH & CENTRAL
Yugoslav Republic) Eswatini
Belize
Moldova Ethiopia
Costa Rica
Montenegro Gabon
Cuba
Poland Gambia
Dominica
Romania Ghana
Dominican Republic
Slovakia Guinea
El Salvador
Serbia Guinea-Bissau
Grenada
Turkey Kenya
Guatemala
Ukraine Lesotho
Haiti
Liberia
AFRICA Honduras
Madagascar
N ORTH OF SAHARA Jamaica
Malawi
Mexico
Algeria Mali
Montserrat
Egypt Mauritania
Nicaragua
Libya Mauritius
Panama
Morocco Mozambique
St. Lucia
Tunisia Namibia
St. Vincent and the
Niger Grenadines
SOUTH OF SAHARA
Nigeria
SOUTH AMERICA
Angola Rwanda
Benin St. Helena Argentina
Botswana Sao Tome & Principe Bolivia
Burkina Faso Senegal Brazil
Burundi Sierra Leone Colombia
Cameroon Somalia Ecuador

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Guyana Maldives Yemen
Paraguay Mongolia
PACIFIC
Peru Myanmar
Suriname Nepal Cook Islands
Venezuela Pakistan Fiji
Philippines Kiribati
ASIA
Sri Lanka Marshall Islands
Afghanistan Tajikistan Micronesia
Bangladesh Thailand Nauru
Bhutan Timor Leste Niue
Cambodia Turkmenistan Palau
Chinai (People’s Republic Uzbekistan Papua New Guinea
of)
Vietnam Samoa
India
Solomon Islands
Indonesia MIDDLE EAST
Tokelau
Kazakhstan
Iran Tonga
Korea (Democratic
Iraq Tuvalu
People’s Republic of)
Jordan Vanuatu
Kyrgyzstan.
Lebanon Wallis & Futuna
Lao People’s Democratic
Republic Syrian Arab Republic
Malaysia West Bank and Gaza
Strip

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Excludes Hong Kong

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