Soft-Currency Countries

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