Low- and middle-income countries, by region and subregion

The 2024 Family Planning Impact Investment Calculator (FPIIC) produces estimates for 128 low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This is the same set of countries utilized by the Adding It Up 2024 analysis (to be released in early 2025).

These countries are classified by the World Bank as being LMICs on the basis of their having a 2023 per capita GNI of $US14,005 or less. These classifications are based on the World Bank Country and Lending Groups Classification for the 2025 fiscal year. The Adding It Up analysis excludes the following LMICs because they did not have United Nations (UN) population or birth data: Dominica, Marshall Islands, and Tuvalu. In addition, per UN World Population Prospects classifications, Kosovo was combined with Serbia for all calculations.

Countries that are included in the 2019 Adding It Up Project and are now excluded from the 2024 FPIIC and Adding It Up Project are: Bulgaria, Guyana, Romania, and the Russian Federation. These countries were previously classified as LMICs in 2019, but are now classified as high-income countries.

 

The Adding It Up 2019 project produced estimates for 132 countries classified by the World Bank as being low- or middle-income countries (LMICs) on the basis of their having a 2018 per capita GNI of $US12,375 or less. The Adding It Up analysis excluded the following LMICs because they did not have United Nations (UN) population or birth data: American Samoa, Dominica, Marshall Islands, Nauru and Tuvalu. In addition, per UN World Population Prospects classifications, Kosovo was combined with Serbia for all calculations.

 

Africa

  • Eastern Africa: Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  • Middle Africa: Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Sao Tome and Principe
  • Northern Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia
  • Southern Africa: Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa
  • Western Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo

 

Asia

  • Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
  • Eastern Asia: China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), Mongolia
  • Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Viet Nam
  • Southern Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Iran, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  • Western Asia: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, State of Palestine, Syrian Arab Republic, Türkiye, Yemen

 

Europe

  • Eastern Europe: Belarus, Bulgaria, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Ukraine
  • Southern Europe: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia

 

Latin America and the Caribbean

  • Caribbean: Cuba, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  • Central America: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua
  • South America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela

 

Oceania

  • Melanesia: Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu
  • Micronesia: Kiribati, Micronesia
  • Polynesia: Samoa, Tonga

 

Source: World Bank, World Bank Country and Lending Groups, 2020 fiscal year.