Bangladesh is scheduled to graduate on 24 November 2026 (see the General Assembly resolution here).

Bangladesh Smooth Transition Strategy (2025)
CDP monitoring report for Bangladesh, 2025
Bangladesh annual report to the CDP on the preparation of a sustainable graduation, 2024
Bangladesh's LDC fact sheet (CDP website) (includes CDP reports, ECOSOC and General Assembly resolutions, Bangladesh's performance against the graduation criteria, ex ante assessment on the impacts of graduation, vulnerability profile, country statements to the CDP)

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	Bangladesh Smooth Transition Strategy - Graduation from the Group of Least Developed Countries (2025) Bangladesh's final Smooth Transition Strategy (February 2025). The document is available at: https://ssgp.erd.gov.bd/	LDC graduation and smooth transition	28 February 2025
	Structural Transformation of Least Developed Countries - Recent Developments and New Challenges. Issue of Asia-Pacific Sustainable Development Journal (UNESCAP) Asia-Pacific Sustainable Development Journal, Vol. 31, No. 2, November 2024.	Productive capacity, structural transformation, technology, innovation	04 December 2024
	Equity and Justice in Climate Finance: Climate Debt Trap Risks for Bangladesh and other LDCs (Change Initiative) This report analyses the rise of loan-based climate finance and its potential to create a debt trap for Least Developed Countries (LDCs), particularly focusing on Bangladesh and South Asia.	Climate change and energy	20 October 2024
	Graduating from the LDC Group: Challenges Facing Bangladesh - Mustafizur Rahman for South Centre Southviews No. 244, 31 January 2023. A significant number of LDCs will be graduating in the near term future. On graduation these countries will face formidable challenges as they will lose the benefits accruing from LDC-specific international support measures.	LDC graduation and smooth transition	31 January 2023
	Graduation from LDC Status: Trade preference and development financing implications for Asia-Pacific countries Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in the Asia-Pacific region have generally demonstrated socioeconomic progress over the past decades, despite being among the most vulnerable and structurally disadvantaged countries.	LDC graduation and smooth transition	30 September 2022
	The State of Science, Technology and Innovation in the Least Developed Countries - UN Technology Bank for LDCs The UN Technology Bank for Least Developed Countries’ new report “The State of Science, Technology and Innovation in the Least Developed Countries” is launched today.	Productive capacity, structural transformation, technology, innovation	14 September 2022
	The Production Transformation Policy Review (PTPR) Of Bangladesh "Half a century after independence, Bangladesh has achieved impressive progress. The country has transformed from one of the poorest nations into a global textile manufacturing hub capable of meeting its medical needs almost entirely through domestic pharmaceutical production.	Productive capacity, structural transformation, technology, innovation	08 September 2022
	CDP Monitoring Reports 2022 - Bangladesh Bangladesh achieved robust economic growth, between 6-8% annually during 2015-2019, and a positive growth of 3.5% in 2020, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Government balance decreased by 5.5%, Taking active responses to the COVID-19 pandemic to protect the living conditions of the population.	LDC graduation and smooth transition	28 February 2022
	Textiles and clothing in Asian graduating LDCs - Challenges and options. EIF, ITC, UNDESA, UNCTAD, WTO The textile and clothing sector in five Asian least developed countries (LDCs) — Bangladesh, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Nepal — makes heavy use of trade preferences for LDCs and is one of the main sectors likely to be impacted by graduation from the category.	LDC graduation and smooth transition	01 February 2022
	Vulnerability profile of Bangladesh - UNCTAD This publication was prepared by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in anticipation of the 2021 review by the Committee for Development Policy of the United Nations of the list of least developed countries. Published January 2022.	Vulnerability	17 January 2022
	Bangladesh - Developing the strategic guidelines for climate financing, multilateral climate funds, considering possible linkages between climate financing and post COVID 19 agricultural development This report presents the current scenario of climate change in Bangladesh, highlighting risks and vulnerabilities, particularly in the agriculture sector, and provides a brief overview of the country’s climate finance landscape.	Climate change and energy	14 October 2021
	Policy Space for Building Production Capabilities in the Pharmaceuticals Sector in Low- and Middle-Income Countries - Evidence from Bangladesh (GEGI Working Paper 051) Over the past four decades Bangladesh has built enough domestic productive capacity in the pharmaceuticals and related industries to generate manufacturing capacity and employment to provide access to medicines in the country and to become a modest exporter of medicines as well.	Productive capacity, structural transformation, technology, innovation	30 September 2021
	The Social Costs of Graduating from Least Developed Country Status: Analyzing the impact of increased protection on insulin prices in Bangladesh (GEGI Working Paper 038) In 2021, the United Nations Committee on Development Policy will consider whether Bangladesh should graduate from ‘least developed country’ (LDC) status.	LDC graduation and smooth transition	31 May 2021
	Cultivating Small and Medium-Sized Firms: Entrepreneurship Development, Gender, and Technology in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ethiopia and Senegal - Technololgy Bank, This report examines and compares the strategies that four LDCs have adopted on these three fronts.	Productive capacity, structural transformation, technology, innovation	11 May 2021
	Summary of the webinar on the implications of LDC graduation for the textiles and clothing sector, 7 May 2021 - WTO The WTO, in cooperation with ITC, UNCTAD and UNDESA, organized a webinar on 7 May 2021. It kicked off an inter-agency collaboration to undertake an in-depth sectoral study on the implications of LDC graduation for the textiles and clothing (T&C) sector.	LDC graduation and smooth transition	07 May 2021
	Smooth transition for graduating LDCs under the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism 4 May 2021. Daniel Gay. It is widely accepted that least developed countries (LDCs) leaving the category need special measures to smooth the transition. The next graduates include Bangladesh, Bhutan, Lao PDR and Solomon Islands, but others will soon follow.	Trade	04 May 2021
	Life after LDC Graduation: How is Bangladesh poised for EU GSP+? Debapriya Bhattacharya	Trade	21 April 2021
	The end of the LDC transition period for pharmaceutical products under the TRIPS Agreement upon LDC graduation - Implications for Bangladesh "The objective of the report is to assess the impact of implementing patent protection for pharmaceutical products upon the graduation from LDC status on the further growth of the pharmaceutical industry of Bangladesh and the capacity of the government to ensure access to quality affordable med	LDC graduation and smooth transition	30 November 2020
	Towards Sustainable Graduation of South Asian LDCs in the aftermath of COVID-19: Challenges, Prospects and Policy Lessons - UNESCAP Policy Brief Prepared as part of the UNESCAP Framework on Socio-Economic Response to COVID-19, and also under UNESCAP’s mandate for supporting countries with special needs in the Asia-Pacific region, this paper points out that South Asian LDCs have important avenues and options to enhance preparedness for gradua	LDC graduation and smooth transition	15 October 2020
	The need to extend the WTO TRIPS pharmaceuticals transition period for LDCs in the COVID-19 era: Evidence from Bangladesh (CDP Policy Review No. 10; Daniel Gay, Kevin Gallagher) Bangladesh is one of the most successful least developed countries (LDCs). The country has made such strides that in 2021 the United Nations Committee for Development Policy will consider whether it should graduate out of the LDC category altogether.	Trade	27 August 2020

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