Least Developed Countries 2025

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Current or Former?
Year Added
HDI 2022 (0-1.0)
Year Graduated
BotswanaFormer19710.7081994
Equatorial GuineaFormer19820.6502017
BhutanFormer19710.6812023
MaldivesFormer19710.7622011
Cape VerdeFormer19770.6612007
VanuatuFormer19850.6142020
SamoaFormer19710.7022014
BangladeshCurrent19750.6702026*
EthiopiaCurrent19710.492tbd
DR CongoCurrent19910.481tbd
TanzaniaCurrent19710.532tbd
MyanmarCurrent19870.608tbd
SudanCurrent19710.516tbd
UgandaCurrent19710.550tbd
AfghanistanCurrent19710.462tbd
YemenCurrent19710.424tbd
AngolaCurrent19940.591tbd
MozambiqueCurrent19880.461tbd
MadagascarCurrent19910.487tbd
NepalCurrent19710.6012026*
NigerCurrent19710.394tbd
MaliCurrent19710.410tbd
Burkina FasoCurrent19710.438tbd
MalawiCurrent19710.508tbd
ZambiaCurrent19910.569tbd
ChadCurrent19710.394tbd
SomaliaCurrent19710.380tbd
SenegalCurrent20000.517tbd
CambodiaCurrent19910.600tbd
GuineaCurrent19710.471tbd
BeninCurrent19710.504tbd
RwandaCurrent19710.548tbd
BurundiCurrent19710.420tbd
South SudanCurrent20120.381tbd
HaitiCurrent19710.552tbd
TogoCurrent19820.547tbd
Sierra LeoneCurrent19820.458tbd
LaosCurrent19710.6202026*
LiberiaCurrent19900.487tbd
Central African RepublicCurrent19750.387tbd
MauritaniaCurrent19860.540tbd
EritreaCurrent19940.493tbd
GambiaCurrent19750.495tbd
LesothoCurrent19710.521tbd
Guinea BissauCurrent19810.483tbd
Timor LesteCurrent20030.566tbd
DjiboutiCurrent19820.515tbd
ComorosCurrent19770.586tbd
Solomon IslandsCurrent19910.5622027*
KiribatiCurrent19860.628tbd
TuvaluCurrent19860.653tbd
India0.644
China0.788
United States0.927
Indonesia0.713
Pakistan0.540
Nigeria0.548
Brazil0.760
Russia0.821
Mexico0.781
Japan0.920
Egypt0.728
Philippines0.710
Vietnam0.726
Iran0.780
Turkey0.855
Germany0.950
Thailand0.803
United Kingdom0.940
France0.910
South Africa0.717
Italy0.906
Kenya0.601
Colombia0.758
South Korea0.929
Spain0.911
Algeria0.745
Iraq0.673
Argentina0.849
Canada0.935
Ukraine0.734
Morocco0.698
Poland0.881
Uzbekistan0.727
Malaysia0.807
Ghana0.602
Peru0.762
Saudi Arabia0.875
Ivory Coast0.534
Cameroon0.587
Venezuela0.699
Australia0.946
Syria0.557
Sri Lanka0.780
Kazakhstan0.802
Chile0.860
Romania0.827
Guatemala0.629
Netherlands0.946
Ecuador0.765
Zimbabwe0.550
Bolivia0.698
Tunisia0.732
Belgium0.942
Jordan0.736
Dominican Republic0.766
United Arab Emirates0.937
Honduras0.624
Cuba0.764
Tajikistan0.679
Papua New Guinea0.568
Sweden0.952
Czech Republic0.895
Portugal0.874
Azerbaijan0.760
Greece0.893
Hungary0.851
Israel0.915
Austria0.926
Belarus0.801
Switzerland0.967
Turkmenistan0.744
Libya0.746
Hong Kong0.956
Kyrgyzstan0.701
Paraguay0.731
Nicaragua0.669
Bulgaria0.799
Serbia0.805
El Salvador0.674
Denmark0.952
Singapore0.949
Lebanon0.723
Finland0.942
Norway0.966
Palestine0.716
Oman0.819
Slovakia0.855
Ireland0.950
New Zealand0.939
Costa Rica0.806
Kuwait0.847
Panama0.820
Croatia0.878
Georgia0.814
Mongolia0.741
Uruguay0.830
Bosnia and Herzegovina0.779
Qatar0.875
Namibia0.610
Moldova0.763
Armenia0.786
Jamaica0.706
Lithuania0.879
Albania0.789
Gabon0.693
Slovenia0.926
Latvia0.879
North Macedonia0.765
Bahrain0.888
Trinidad and Tobago0.814
Cyprus0.907
Estonia0.899
Mauritius0.796
Eswatini0.610
Fiji0.729
Guyana0.742
Luxembourg0.927
Suriname0.690
Montenegro0.844
Malta0.915
Brunei0.823
Belize0.700
Bahamas0.820
Iceland0.959
Barbados0.809
Sao Tome and Principe19820.613
Saint Lucia0.725
Seychelles0.802
Grenada0.793
Micronesia0.634
Tonga0.739
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines0.772
Antigua and Barbuda0.826
Andorra0.884
Dominica0.740
Saint Kitts and Nevis0.838
Liechtenstein0.942
Marshall Islands0.731
San Marino0.867
Palau0.797
Nauru0.696
Total
    • denotes the year the country is projected to graduate from Least Developed Country (LDC) status according to current assessments.
  • Countries whose date for graduation is currently undetermined are marked “tba”.
  • Projected graduation dates may change. For example, Angola was originally expected to graduate in 2023, but could not sustain its graduation criteria, so its graduation was deferred until a later date.