What are OECD, transition and developing countries?

30 countries signed the Convention of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD. Among them are primarily the industrialised and richer countries of North America and Europe as well as Japan, Korea, Australia and New Zealand. OECD countries have usually a high per capita energy consumption.

The list of transition countries usually includes countries of the former Warsaw Pact (also Russia) and many smaller but richer territories and countries which are not regarded as industrialised countries.

The OECD publishes the so called DAC list (DAC = development assistance committee), in which the countries are sorted by their economic state.

 DAC list 2003 (PDF)

OECD countries	Transition Countries	Developing Countries
AUSTRALIA AUSTRIA BELGIUM CANADA CZECH REPUBLIC DENMARK FINLAND FRANCE GERMANY GREECE HUNGARY ICELAND IRELAND ITALY JAPAN KOREA LUXEMBOURG MEXICO NETHERLANDS NEW ZEALAND NORWAY POLAND PORTUGAL SLOVAK REPUBLIC SPAIN SWEDEN SWITZERLAND TURKEY UNITED KINGDOM UNITED STATES	Belarus Bulgaria Estonia Latvia Lithuania Romania Russia Ukraine *** Aruba Bahamas Bermuda Brunei Cayman Islands Chinese Taipei Cyprus Falkland Islands French Polynesia Gibraltar Hong Kong (China) Israel Kuwait Libya Macao Malta Netherlands Antilles New Caledonia Qatar Singapore Slovenia United Arab Emirates Virgin Islands (UK)	other countries, among them: China India Brazil Indonesia Argentina ...