World Bank classifies Mongolia as upper-middle-income country
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Mongolia has been reclassified by the World Bank from a lower-middle-income country to an upper-middle-income country for the 2024 fiscal year, the country’s Finance Ministry announced.
This marks Mongolia’s first inclusion in the upper-middle-income category since 2014, according to a ministry statement on Wednesday.
The World Bank Group categorises the world’s economies into four groups by income level: low, lower middle, upper middle, and high.
The classification is updated each year on July 1 based on gross national income per capita for the previous calendar year.
Mongolia’s income was estimated at $4,950 per capita, leading to its elevation in the global economy ranking.
In 2023, the Asian country’s gross domestic product expanded by 7.0 per cent, according to revised data by the country’s National Statistics Office.
The World Bank predicts that Mongolia’s economy is projected to grow by 4.8 per cent in 2024.
(Xinhua/NAN)
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