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Least developed country
list of countries that exhibits the lowest indicators of socioeconomic development / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A least developed country (LDC) is a country that the United Nations considers to be the least developed out of all the countries in the world. They normally have the lowest ratings on the Human Development Index. The idea to name LDCs started in the late 1960s. The first group of LDCs was listed by the UN in November 1971.[1]
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