The DAC List of Aid Recipients 
Used for 1996 flows
Part I: Aid to Developing Countries and Territories (Official Development Assistance)
| Least 
      Developed | Other Low Income Countries 
       | Lower Middle Income 
      Countries | Upper Middle Income 
      Countries | High Income 
      Countries | 
| Afghanistan Angola Bangladesh Benin Bhutan Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo, Dem. Rep. Djibouti Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gambia Guinea Guinea-Bissau Haiti Kiribati Laos Lesotho Liberia Madagascar Malawi Maldives Mali Mauritania Mozambique Myanmar Nepal Niger Rwanda Samoa Sao Tome and Principe Sierra Leone Solomon Islands Somalia Sudan Tanzania Togo Tuvalu Uganda Vanuatu Yemen Zambia | *Albania *Armenia *Azerbaijan Bosnia and Herzegovina Cameroon China Congo, Rep. Côte d'Ivoire *Georgia Ghana Guyana Honduras India Kenya *Kyrgyz Rep. Mongolia Nicaragua Nigeria Pakistan Senegal Sri Lanka *Tajikistan Viet Nam Zimbabwe | Algeria Belize Bolivia Botswana Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic §East Timor Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Fiji Grenada Guatemala Indonesia Iran Iraq Jamaica Jordan *Kazakstan Korea, Democratic Republic of Lebanon Macedonia (former Yugoslav Republic) Marshall Islands Micronesia, Federated States Morocco Namibia Niue Palau Islands Palestinian Administered Areas Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines St Vincent & Grenadines Suriname Swaziland Syria Thailand §Tokelau Tonga Tunisia Turkey *Turkmenistan *Uzbekistan Venezuela §Wallis and Futuna Yugoslavia, Federal Republic | Brazil Chile Cook Islands Croatia Gabon Malaysia Mauritius §Mayotte Mexico Nauru South Africa St Lucia Trinidad and Tobago Uruguay ------------------------- §Anguilla | §Aruba §Bermuda §Cayman Islands Chinese Taipei Cyprus §Falkland Islands §French Polynesia §Gibraltar 3 §Hong Kong, China Israel Korea, Rep. of 3 §Macao §Netherlands Antilles §New Caledonia Northern Marianas §Virgin Islands (UK) 3 | 
Part II: Aid to Countries and Territories in Transition (Official Aid)
| Central and Eastern 
      European Countries and New Independent States  | More Advanced Developing Countries and Territories | 
| *Belarus *Bulgaria *Czech Republic *Estonia *Hungary *Latvia *Lithuania *Moldova *Poland *Romania *Russia *Slovak Republic *Ukraine | Bahamas 2 Brunei 2 Kuwait 2 Qatar 2 Singapore 2 United Arab Emirates 2 | 
Notes:
Names with an § 
represent territories.
* Central and Eastern European 
Countries and New Independent States of the former Soviet Union (CEEC/NIS) & 
Territory
1. For planned changes to the List in future 
years, see “Development Co-operation: Efforts and Policies of the Members of the 
Development Assistance Committee”, 1996 Report, Note on page A101.
2. Part II as from January 1996: through 1995, aid to these 
countries is counted as ODA.
3. These countries will 
progress to Part II on 1 january 2000, unless an exception is agreed by 
concensus.