World Bank Rankings

APPLICANTS FROM THE FOLLOWING COUNTRIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR THE AANS INTERNATIONAL VISITING SURGEONS FELLOWSHIP

("Developing countries" are defined as low-income and lower-middle income economies, as determined by the World Bank)

Afghanistan Albania Algeria Angola Armenia Azerbaijan Bangladesh Belarus Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad China Colombia Comoros Congo, Democratic Republic Congo, Republic Côte d’Ivoire Cuba Djibouti Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt, Arab Republic El Salvador Eritrea Ethiopia Fiji Gambia

Georgia Ghana Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras India Indonesia Iran, Islamic Republic Iraq Jamaica Jordan Kenya Kiribati Korea, Democratic Republic Kyrgyz Republic Lao PDR Lesotho Liberia Macedonia, FYR Madagascar Malawi Maldives Mali Marshall Islands Mauritania Micronesia, Fed. Sts. Moldova Mongolia Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nepal Nicaragua

Niger Nigeria Pakistan Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Phillippines Rwanda Samoa Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Sierra Leone Solomon Islands Somalia Sri Lanka Sudan Suriname Swaziland Syrian Arab Republic Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Timor-Leste Togo Tonga Tunisia Turkmenistan Uganda Ukraine Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vietnam West Bank and Gaza Yemen, Republic Zambia Zimbabwe

2008-09 International Visiting Surgeons Fellowship Program (based on World Bank data 5/2/08) The link to the World Bank Statistics is:

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/DATASTATISTICS/0,,contentMDK:2042140 2~pagePK:64133150~piPK:64133175~theSitePK:239419,00.html