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Bangladesh graduation status
Bangladesh is scheduled to graduate on 24 November 2026 (see the General Assembly resolution ).
On 18 February 2026, the Committee for Development Policy received a request from the Government of Bangladesh to consider an extension of the preparatory period for graduation under the crisis response provision of the Committee’s enhanced monitoring mechanism. The CDP has concluded that an extension of the preparatory period by the General Assembly would be appropriate, provided that Bangladesh makes significant progress during this period on domestic reforms aimed at addressing its persistent structural vulnerabilities. The CDP has shared its findings with the Government and with the President of ECOSOC. The crisis assessment is available at cdp.un.org.
- Bangladesh Smooth Transition Strategy (2025)
- (includes CDP reports, ECOSOC and General Assembly resolutions, Bangladesh's performance against the graduation criteria, ex ante assessment on the impacts of graduation, vulnerability profile, country statements to the CDP)
Other resources:
- References to policy measures related to graduation in the (UNCTAD)
Documents on Bangladesh
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"The UN Technology Bank, in collaboration with Medtronic and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), has released a new study examining how the medical technology (MedTech) sector can respond to the rising burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which account for more than 70% |
15 October 2025 | |
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Bangladesh's final Smooth Transition Strategy (February 2025). The document is available at: https://ssgp.erd.gov.bd/ |
LDC graduation and smooth transition | 28 February 2025 |
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Asia-Pacific Sustainable Development Journal, Vol. 31, No. 2, November 2024. |
Productive capacity, structural transformation, technology, innovation | 04 December 2024 |
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This report analyses the rise of loan-based climate finance and its potential to create a debt trap for Least Developed Countries (LDCs), particularly focusing on Bangladesh and South Asia. |
Climate change and energy | 20 October 2024 |
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Southviews No. 244, 31 January 2023. A significant number of LDCs will be graduating in the near term future. On graduation these countries will face formidable challenges as they will lose the benefits accruing from LDC-specific international support measures. |
LDC graduation and smooth transition | 31 January 2023 |
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Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in the Asia-Pacific region have generally demonstrated socioeconomic progress over the past decades, despite being among the most vulnerable and structurally disadvantaged countries. |
LDC graduation and smooth transition | 30 September 2022 |
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The UN Technology Bank for Least Developed Countries’ new report “The State of Science, Technology and Innovation in the Least Developed Countries” is launched today. |
Productive capacity, structural transformation, technology, innovation | 14 September 2022 |
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"Half a century after independence, Bangladesh has achieved impressive progress. The country has transformed from one of the poorest nations into a global textile manufacturing hub capable of meeting its medical needs almost entirely through domestic pharmaceutical production. |
Productive capacity, structural transformation, technology, innovation | 08 September 2022 |
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CDP Monitoring Reports 2022 - Bangladesh Bangladesh achieved robust economic growth, between 6-8% annually during 2015-2019, and a positive growth of 3.5% in 2020, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Government balance decreased by 5.5%, Taking active responses to the COVID-19 pandemic to protect the living conditions of the population. |
LDC graduation and smooth transition | 28 February 2022 |
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The textile and clothing sector in five Asian least developed countries (LDCs) — Bangladesh, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Nepal — makes heavy use of trade preferences for LDCs and is one of the main sectors likely to be impacted by graduation from the category. |
LDC graduation and smooth transition | 01 February 2022 |
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This publication was prepared by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in anticipation of the 2021 review by the Committee for Development Policy of the United Nations of the list of least developed countries. Published January 2022. |
Vulnerability | 17 January 2022 |
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This report presents the current scenario of climate change in Bangladesh, highlighting risks and vulnerabilities, particularly in the agriculture sector, and provides a brief overview of the country’s climate finance landscape. |
Climate change and energy | 14 October 2021 |
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Over the past four decades Bangladesh has built enough domestic productive capacity in the pharmaceuticals and related industries to generate manufacturing capacity and employment to provide access to medicines in the country and to become a modest exporter of medicines as well. |
Productive capacity, structural transformation, technology, innovation | 30 September 2021 |
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In 2021, the United Nations Committee on Development Policy will consider whether Bangladesh should graduate from ‘least developed country’ (LDC) status. |
LDC graduation and smooth transition | 31 May 2021 |
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This report examines and compares the strategies that four LDCs have adopted on these three fronts. |
Productive capacity, structural transformation, technology, innovation | 11 May 2021 |
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The WTO, in cooperation with ITC, UNCTAD and UNDESA, organized a webinar on 7 May 2021. It kicked off an inter-agency collaboration to undertake an in-depth sectoral study on the implications of LDC graduation for the textiles and clothing (T&C) sector. |
LDC graduation and smooth transition | 07 May 2021 |
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Smooth transition for graduating LDCs under the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism 4 May 2021. Daniel Gay. It is widely accepted that least developed countries (LDCs) leaving the category need special measures to smooth the transition. The next graduates include Bangladesh, Bhutan, Lao PDR and Solomon Islands, but others will soon follow. |
Trade | 04 May 2021 |
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Trade | 21 April 2021 | |
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Prepared as part of the UNESCAP Framework on Socio-Economic Response to COVID-19, and also under UNESCAP’s mandate for supporting countries with special needs in the Asia-Pacific region, this paper points out that South Asian LDCs have important avenues and options to enhance preparedness for gradua |
LDC graduation and smooth transition | 15 October 2020 |
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Bangladesh is one of the most successful least developed countries (LDCs). The country has made such strides that in 2021 the United Nations Committee for Development Policy will consider whether it should graduate out of the LDC category altogether. |
Trade | 27 August 2020 |
Photo UN/Kibae Park