Individuals and organizations based in the countries listed below qualify for the Soft-Currency membership rate. This list is based on the World Bank’s current classifications for low- and lower-middle-income economies and also includes countries classified in the red “Alert” category on the Fragile States Index published by the Fund for Peace.
- Afghanistan
- Angola
- Bangladesh
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comoros
- Congo, Democratic Republic of the
- Congo, Republic of the
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Haiti
- Honduras
- India
- Iraq
- Jordan
- Korea, Democratic People’s Republic (North Korea)
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Kyrgyz Republic
- Laos
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Micronesia
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nepal
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Palestine
- Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Rwanda
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
