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Country Classification Explorer

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Nominal classes, not cut into intervals — no quintile or equal-interval break applies. Equal Earth projection; Antarctica omitted. Hover any country to read all six classifications at once. A name marked * has a pending reclassification — see its hover detail or pinned panel.
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Search above, or click a country on the map, to see its indicator profile.
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Frontier Markets Report

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The four criteria — union, not intersection

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The derived rules — group, scope and the ladder

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The six classifications

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WEF groups and the tiers behind them

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Join reconciliation

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Data provenance — UNHCR figures

Independently cross-checked (2026-07-31) against UNHCR's own public population statistics API for all 22 countries carrying a UNHCR Hosting figure — every value matches UNHCR's 2025 year-end totals exactly. One inconsistency worth noting: 19 of the 22 sum refugees + asylum-seekers + UNHCR's "others of concern" category (when non-zero), matching this criterion's own stated definition; Lebanon, Costa Rica, and Malaysia instead reflect refugees + asylum-seekers only, omitting others of concern (26,758 / 662 / 55,881 respectively). The underlying figures for all three are still genuine UNHCR data — just missing that one sub-category relative to how the other 19 were compiled.