Membership




The IDA has 173 member countries which pay contributions every three years as replenishments of its capital.On December 12, 2008, Samoa joined UNIDO as its 173rd member. The IDA lends to 75 borrowing countries, over half of which (39) are in Africa. Membership in the IDA is available only to countries who are members of the World Bank, particularly the IBRD. Throughout its lifetime, 44 borrowing countries have graduated from the association, although 9 of these countries have relapsed as borrowers after not sustaining their graduate status.

To be eligible for support from the IDA, countries are assessed by their poverty and their lack of creditworthiness for commercial and IBRD borrowing. The association assesses countries based on their per capita income, lack of access to private capital markets, and policy performance in implementing pro-growth and anti-poverty economic or social reforms. As of 2019update, to borrow from the IDA's concessional lending programs, a country's gross national income (GNI) per capita must not exceed $1,145 (in 2019 dollars).

Countries that graduated from IDA lendingedit

The following countries have graduated from their eligibility for IDA lending.

Countries relapsed to IDA lendingedit

The following countries have relapsed to their eligibility for IDA lending and have not yet re-graduated or have instead become partially eligible (also referred to as a blend country).

  •  Cameroon (1994)
  •  Congo (1994)
  •  Cote d'Ivoire (1992)
  •  Honduras (1991)
  •  Nicaragua (1991)
  •  Nigeria (1989)
  •  Papua New Guinea (2003, partially eligible)
  •  Syria (2017)
  •  Zimbabwe (1992)

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