Least Developed Countries (LDCs)

The United Nations has designated 45 countries as least developed.
  1. Afghanistan
  2. Angola
  3. Bangladesh
  4. Benin
  5. Burkina Faso
  6. Burundi
  7. Cambodia
  8. Central African Republic (the)
  9. Chad
  10. Comoros (the)
  11. Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)
  12. Djibouti
  13. Eritrea
  14. Ethiopia
  15. Gambia (the)
  16. Guinea
  17. Guinea-Bissau
  18. Haiti
  19. Kiribati
  20. Lao People's Democratic Republic (the)
  21. Lesotho
  22. Liberia
  23. Madagascar
  24. Malawi
  25. Mali
  26. Mauritania
  27. Mozambique
  28. Myanmar
  29. Nepal
  30. Niger (the)
  31. Rwanda
  32. Sao Tome and Principe
  33. Senegal
  34. Sierra Leone
  35. Solomon Islands
  36. Somalia
  37. South Sudan
  38. Sudan (the)
  39. Timor-Leste
  40. Togo
  41. Tuvalu
  42. Uganda
  43. United Republic of Tanzania (the)
  44. Yemen
  45. Zambia

 

Source: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs

 

TWAS has five programmes targeting Least Developed Countries:

  1. TWAS Fellowships for Research and Advanced Training
  2. TWAS Research Professors in LDCs
  3. TWAS Visiting Expert Programme
  4. TWAS─C.N.R. Rao Prize for Scientific Research
  5. TWAS─Samira Omar Innovation for Sustainability Prize