| Heavily Indebted Poor Countries | |||||
| 42 Heavily Indebted Poor Countries as named by the World Bank | |||||
| Angola Benin Bolivia Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon |
Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo, Dem Rep Congo Rep Cote d'Ivoire |
Ethiopia The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Honduras Kenya Lao, PDR |
Liberia Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mozambique Myanmar (Burma) Nicaragua |
Niger Rwanda Sao Tome & Principe Senegal Sierra Leone Somalia |
Sudan Tanzania Togo Uganda Vietnam Yemen, Rep Zambia |
Most of the poorest 1/5 of people in the world live in these heavily indebted
poor countries.
Where are these countries?
How many are in Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East?
There are other heavily indebted poor countries like Bangladesh, Ecuador, Haiti and Jamaica, but the IMF and World Bank have not included them in their Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative.