Developing countries in ISO

The ISO list of developing countries is approved by ISO Council. The list is based on the UN list of Member States of the Group of 77 (G77) plus ISO members in the UN Eastern European Group of countries that asked to be added.

ISO groups developing countries by region for practical reasons when carrying out training programmes. ISO's grouping of countries does not reflect an opinion (political or otherwise) of any kind, including about the legal status of any country, territory, city, area, its authorities, or the drawing of its frontiers or boundaries.

Regions

Arab  –  Group 1

Member bodies	Correspondent members	Subscriber members	Total
Algeria Bahrain Egypt Iraq Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Libya Morocco Oman Qatar Saudi Arabia Syrian Arab Rep. Tunisia United Arab Emirates Yemen	Palestine		17

Caribbean and Central America  –  Group 2

Member bodies	Correspondent members	Subscriber members	Total
Barbados Costa Rica Cuba Jamaica Panama St. Lucia Trinidad and Tobago	Dominica Dominican Rep. El Salvador Guatemala Guyana Nicaragua Suriname	Antigua & Barbuda Honduras Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	17

Central Asia  –  Group 3

Member bodies	Correspondent members	Subscriber members	Total
Azerbaijan Kazakhstan Uzbekistan	Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Turkmenistan		6

Central and Eastern Europe  –  Group 4

Member bodies	Correspondent members	Subscriber members	Total
Armenia Belarus Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia Lithuania Romania Serbia The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Ukraine	Albania Georgia Latvia Moldova Montenegro		14

Central and Western Africa  –  Group 5

Member bodies	Correspondent members	Subscriber members	Total
Cameroon Cote d'Ivoire Gabon Ghana Mali Nigeria	Benin Burkina Faso Gambia Guinea Liberia Mauritania Niger Sierra Leone Togo		15

East and South East Asia  –  Group 6

Member bodies	Correspondent members	Subscriber members	Total
China Fiji Indonesia Malaysia Mongolia Philippines Singapore Thailand Viet Nam	Brunei Darussalam Cambodia Macau, China Myanmar Papua New Guinea	Lao People’s Democratic Rep.	15

Eastern and Southern Africa  –  Group 7

Member bodies	Correspondent members	Subscriber members	Total
Botswana Congo, The Democratic Rep. of Ethiopia Kenya Mauritius Namibia South Africa Sudan Tanzania Uganda Zimbabwe	Angola Burundi Eritrea Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Mozambique Rwanda Seychelles Swaziland Zambia		22

South America  –  Group 8

Member bodies	Correspondent members	Subscriber members	Total
Argentina Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Peru Uruguay	Bolivia Paraguay		9

South Asia  –  Group 9

Member bodies	Correspondent members	Subscriber members	Total
Bangladesh India Iran, Islamic Rep. of Pakistan Sri Lanka	Afghanistan Bhutan Nepal		7