Annex A. Country groupings
For the purpose of this report’s analysis and figures, the following classifications are used:
“Developing countries”, which refer to countries and territories included on the DAC List of ODA Recipients for 2018 development finance and/or on the non-Annex I list of Parties to the UNFCCC.
“Developed countries”, which include Annex II Parties to the Convention, the Member States of the European Union, Liechtenstein, and Monaco.
Countries and territories that do not fall in these categories (most notably the Russian Federation (Russia) are not covered by the analysis.
The classifications used in this report are inspired by the M49 standard of the United Nations to the extent possible, as well as the DAC regional groupings. Climate finance that is not allocable by region is grouped under “unspecified”.
The divergences from the UN M49 standard in this report are that:
Central Asia includes all post-soviet countries in Asia, except Russia, namely Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
Western Asia is replaced with the Middle East, whereas relevant post-soviet countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia) are included in Central Asia (see above).
Sudan is included in Eastern Africa, rather than North Africa.
The main reason for these divergences is to ensure consistency with the DAC classification, which is used in the context of the underlying data on multilateral public and private finance mobilised. Moreover, “developed countries” are excluded from the individual regions.