NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA Regional overview of food security and nutrition 2021: Statistics and trends

FAO uses the World Bank income groups, available at https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/906519-world-bank-country-and-lending-groups.

The groupings are:

• - High-income economies: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates;
• - Lower-middle-income economies: Algeria, the Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Mauritania, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia;
• - Low-income economies: Somalia, the Sudan, the Syrian Arab Republic, Yemen; and
• - Upper-middle-income economies: Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya.

In addition, the following groupings are used for information purposes:

• - Arab States LDCs: the Comoros, Djibouti, Mauritania, Somalia, the Sudan, Yemen;
• - Conflict countries: Iraq, Libya, Somalia, the Sudan, the Syrian Arab Republic, Yemen; and
• - Non-conflict countries: Algeria, Bahrain, the Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates.