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Least Developed Countries (LDCs)

The United Nations has designated 49 countries as least developed:

  1. Afghanistan
  2. Angola
  3. Bangladesh
  4. Benin
  5. Bhutan
  6. Burkina Faso
  7. Burundi
  8. Cambodia
  9. Central African Republic, the
  10. Chad
  11. Comoros, the
  12. Democratic Republic of the Congo, the
  13. Djibouti
  14. Equatorial Guinea
  15. Eritrea
  16. Ethiopia
  17. Gambia
  18. Guinea
  19. Guinea-Bissau
  20. Haiti
  21. Kiribati
  22. Lao People's Democratic Republic, the
  23. Lesotho
  24. Liberia
  25. Madagascar
  26. Malawi
  27. Maldives
  28. Mali
  29. Mauritania
  30. Mozambique
  31. Myanmar
  32. Nepal
  33. Niger
  34. Rwanda
  35. Samoa
  36. Sao Tome and Principe
  37. Senegal
  38. Sierra Leone
  39. Solomon Islands
  40. Somalia
  41. Sudan
  42. Timor-Leste (as of December 2003)
  43. Togo
  44. Tuvalu
  45. Uganda
  46. United Republic of Tanzania, the
  47. Vanuatu
  48. Yemen
  49. Zambia

 

Source: UN Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States

 
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