The world's second-largest economy is about $145 short of the World Bank's rich-country line, but here's why it would want to ...

Vietnam and the Philippines are now "upper-middle-income" countries, at least according to the World Bank, putting them on the same level as Southeast Asian peers like Malaysia, Thailand, and ...

Thailand’s ambition to become a high-income economy by 2037 will depend heavily on its cities, but the country cannot rely on ...

The World Bank has upgraded Vietnam and the Philippines from lower-middle-income to upper-middle-income status, reflecting their rising gross national income (GNI) per capita, the VnExpress newspaper ...

The World Bank updated its annual country income classifications on July 8, 2026, grouping African economies by GNI per capita Togo moved up from low-income to lower-middle-income status, marking the ...

Urban districts accounted for around 89 percent of Thailand’s GDP growth between 2010 and 2020, showing how much the national economy depends on activity concentrated in its towns and cities.

Amman, July 3 (Petra)-- Jordan has officially moved from the lower-middle-income category to the upper-middle-income category in the World Bank's annual income classification update for fiscal year ...