Poorest Countries

For purposes of the Supplemental Guidelines for High Carbon Intensity Projects, Ex-Im Bank considers the "poorest countries" to be those International Development Assistance-only ("IDA-only") countries identified by the World Bank as the world's poorest countries based on (i) gross national income per capita, and (ii) in certain cases, the country's limited capacity to access credit from external sources. Ex-Im Bank will review and amend, as necessary, its list of poorest countries at the time the World Bank updates its posting of these countries. As of July 1, 2014, Ex-Im Bank's list of poorest countries, which tracks the World Bank's IDA- only countries, numbers 59 and is set forth below:

  AFGHANISTAN
  BANGLADESH
  BENIN
  BHUTAN
  BURKINA FASO
  BURMA/MYANMAR
  BURUNDI
  CAMBODIA
  CENTRAL AFRICAN REP
  CHAD
  COMOROS
  CONGO (D.R.) 
  COTE D'IVOIRE
  DJIBOUTI
  ERITREA
  ETHIOPIA
  GAMBIA
  GHANA
  GUINEA
  GUINEA-BISSAU
  GUYANA
  HAITI
  HONDURAS
  KENYA
  KIRIBATI
  KOSOVO
  KYRGYZSTAN
  LAOS
  LESOTHO
  LIBERIA
  MADAGASCAR
  MALAWI
  MALDIVES
  MALI
  MARSHALL ISLANDS 
  MAURITANIA
  MICRONESIA
  MOZAMBIQUE
  NEPAL
  NICARAGUA
  NIGER
  RWANDA
  SAMOA
  SAO TOME/PRINCIPE
  SENEGAL
  SIERRA LEONE
  SOLOMON ISLANDS
  SOMALIA
  SOUTH SUDAN
  SUDAN
  TAJIKISTAN
  TANZANIA
  TOGO
  TONGA
  TUVALU
  UGANDA
  VANUATU
  YEMEN
  ZAMBIA