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title: "Appendix: Economic categorization of high- and middle-income countries"
description: "For this report, we grouped countries into high-income and middle-income categories based on definitions from the World Bank."
date: "2025-04-24"
authors:
  - name: "Jacob Poushter"
    job_title: "Associate Director, Global Attitudes Research"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/jacob-poushter/"
  - name: "Maria Smerkovich"
    job_title: "Research Associate"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/maria-smerkovich/"
  - name: "Moira Fagan"
    job_title: "Research Associate"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/moira-fagan/"
  - name: "Andrew Prozorovsky"
    job_title: "Research Assistant"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/andrew-prozorovsky/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/04/24/appendix-economic-categorization-of-high-and-middle-income-countries/"
categories:
  - "Free Speech & Press"
  - "Freedom of the Press"
  - "International Affairs"
datasets:
  - name: "American Trends Panel Wave 145"
    url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/dataset/american-trends-panel-wave-145/"
  - name: "Spring 2024 Survey Data"
    url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/dataset/spring-2024-survey-data/"
---

# Appendix: Economic categorization of high- and middle-income countries

For this report, we grouped countries into high-income and middle-income categories based on [definitions from the World Bank](https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/new-world-bank-group-country-classifications-income-level-fy24).

[![A map showing Countries included in this report, by income level ](https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2025/04/pg_2025.04.24_free-speech_a_01.png?w=640)](https://www.pewresearch.org/?attachment_id=223687)

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