List of Least
Developed Countries
(as at 27 March 2000)
| No. | All LDCs (48) | Land-locked LDCs (16) |
Small Island LDCs (10) |
Status with WTO (as on 21.12.99) |
Capital | ||
| Members (29) | Observers
(10) (*acceding) |
No status
(9) |
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| African LDCs (33) | |||||||
1 |
Angola | Luanda | |||||
| 2 | Benin | Porto Novo | |||||
| 3 | Burkina Faso | Y | Y | Ouagadougou | |||
| 4 | Burundi | Y | Y | Bujumbura | |||
| 5 | Cape Verde | Y | Y | Praia | |||
| 6 | Central African Republic | Y | Y | Bangui | |||
| 7 | Chad | Y | Y | N'Djamena | |||
| 8 | Comoros | Y | Y | Moroni | |||
| 9 | Dem. Republic of the Congo | Y | Kinshasa | ||||
| 10 | Djibouti | Y | Djibouti | ||||
| 11 | Equatorial Guinea | Y | Malabo | ||||
| 12 | Eritrea | Y | Asmara | ||||
| 13 | Ethiopia | Y | Y | Addis Ababa | |||
| 14 | Gambia | Y | Banjul | ||||
| 15 | Guinea | Y | Conakry | ||||
| 16 | Guinea Bissau | Y | Bissau | ||||
| 17 | Lesotho | Y | Y | Maseru | |||
| 18 | Liberia | Y | Monrovia | ||||
| 19 | Madagascar | Y | Antananarivo | ||||
| 20 | Malawi | Y | Y | Lilongwe | |||
| 21 | Mali | Y | Y | Bamako | |||
| 22 | Mauritania | Y | Nouakchott | ||||
| 23 | Mozambique | Y | Maputo | ||||
| 24 | Niger | Y | Y | Niamey | |||
| 25 | Rwanda | Y | Y | Kigali | |||
| 26 | Sao Tome and Principe | Y | Y | Sao Tome | |||
| 27 | Sierra Leone | Y | Freetown | ||||
| 28 | Somalia | Y | Mogadishu | ||||
| 29 | Sudan | * | Khartoum | ||||
| 30 | Togo | Y | Lomé | ||||
| 31 | Uganda | Y | Y | Kampala | |||
| 32 | United Rep. of Tanzania | Y | Dar es Salaam | ||||
| 33 | Zambia | Y | Y | Lusaka | |||
| Asian LDCs (9) | |||||||
1 |
Afghanistan | Y | Y | Kabul | |||
| 2 | Bangladesh | Y | Dhaka | ||||
| 3 | Bhutan | Y | Y | Thimphu | |||
| 4 | Cambodia | * | Phnom Penh | ||||
| 5 | Lao PDR | Y | * | Vientiane | |||
| 6 | Maldives | Y | Y | Male | |||
| 7 | Myanmar | Y | Yangon | ||||
| 8 | Nepal | Y | * | Kathmandu | |||
| 9 | Yemen, Rep of | Y | Sana'a | ||||
| Pacific LDCs (5) | |||||||
1 |
Kiribati | Y | Y | Tarawa | |||
| 2 | Samoa | Y | * | Apia | |||
| 3 | Solomon Islands | Y | Y | Honiara | |||
| 4 | Tuvalu | Y | Y | Funafuti | |||
| 5 | Vanuatu | Y | * | Vila | |||
| Caribbean LDC (1) | |||||||
1 |
Haiti | Y | Y | Port-au-Prince | |||