For Scholarship purposes designed to support students from less privileged backgrounds, the following counties are considered developing countries:
Afghanistan; Algeria; American Samoa; Angola; Antigua and Barbuda; Argentina;
Armenia; Azerbaijan; Bangladesh; Belize; Benin; Bhutan; Bolivia; Botswana; Brazil;
Burkina Faso; Burundi; Cabo Verde; Cambodia; Cameroon; Central African Republic;
Chad; Chile; China; Colombia; Comoros; Congo; Congo – Democratic Republic of the;
Cook Islands; Costa Rica; Cote D’Ivoire; Cuba; Djibouti; Dominica; Dominican Republic;
Ecuador; Egypt; El Salvador; Equatorial Guinea; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Fiji; Gabon; Gambia;
Georgia; Ghana; Grenada; Guatemala; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Guyana; Haiti;
Honduras; India; Indonesia; Iran – Islamic Republic of; Iraq; Jamaica; Jordan;
Kazakhstan; Kenya; Kiribati; Korea – Democratic People’s Republic of; Kyrgyzstan; Lao
People’s Democratic Republic; Lebanon; Lesotho; Liberia; Libya; Madagascar; Malawi;
Malaysia; Maldives; Mali; Marshall Islands; Mauritania; Mauritius; Mexico; Micronesia –
Federated States of; Mongolia; Montserrat; Morocco; Mozambique; Myanmar; Namibia;
Nauru; Nepal; Nicaragua; Niger; Nigeria; Niue; Pakistan; Palau; Panama; Papua New
Guinea; Paraguay; Peru; Philippines; Rwanda; Saint Helena; Saint Lucia; Saint Vincent
and the Grenadines; Sao Tome and Principe; Senegal; Seychelles; Sierra Leone;
Solomon Islands; Somalia; South Africa; South Sudan; Sri Lanka; Sudan; Suriname;
Swaziland; Syrian Arab Republic; Tajikistan; Tanzania – United Rebublic of; Thailand;
Timor-Leste; Togo; Tokelau; Tonga; Tunisia; Turkmenistan; Tuvalu; Uganda; Uruguay;
Uzbekistan; Vanuatu; Venezuela; Viet Nam; Wallis and Futuna; West Bank and Gaza
Strip; Yemen; Zambia; Zimbabwe