## Country Groupings

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### Overview
- The October 2016 Regional Economic Outlook Update: Middle East and Central Asia (REO) covers 31 MCD countries and divides them into two groups:
  - (1) countries of the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan (MENAP) –– further divided into oil exporters and oil importers.
  - (2) countries of the Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA).
- Country acronyms and abbreviations used in some tables and figures are included in parentheses.

### MENAP oil exporters
- Algeria (ALG)
- Bahrain (BHR)
- Iran (IRN)
- Iraq (IRQ)
- Kuwait (KWT)
- Libya (LBY)
- Oman (OMN)
- Qatar (QAT)
- Saudi Arabia (SAU)
- the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
- Yemen (YMN)

### MENAP oil importers
- Afghanistan (AFG)
- Djibouti (DJI)
- Egypt (EGY)
- Jordan (JOR)
- Lebanon (LBN)
- Mauritania (MRT)
- Morocco (MAR)
- Pakistan (PAK)
- Somalia (SOM)
- Sudan (SDN)
- Syria (SYR)
- Tunisia (TUN)

### MENA definitions and subgroups
- MENA comprises Algeria, Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.
- MENA oil importers comprise Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Mauritania, Morocco, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Tunisia.
- The GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) comprises Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
- The Non-GCC oil-exporting countries are Algeria, Iran, Iraq, Libya, and Yemen.
- The Maghreb comprises Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia.
- The Mashreq comprises Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria.
- The ACTs (Arab Countries in Transition) are Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen.
- The Arab World comprises Algeria, Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.

### CCA groupings
- CCA countries comprise Armenia (ARM), Azerbaijan (AZE), Georgia (GEO), Kazakhstan (KAZ), the Kyrgyz Republic (KGZ), Tajikistan (TJK), Turkmenistan (TKM), and Uzbekistan (UBZ).
- CCA oil exporters comprise Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
- CCA oil importers comprise Armenia, Georgia, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan.

### Conflict countries
- Conflict countries include Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yemen.

### Data notes
- Somalia is excluded from all regional aggregates owing to a lack of reliable data.
- For Sudan, data for 2012 onward exclude South Sudan.
- Because of the uncertain economic situation, Syria is excluded from the projection years of REO aggregates.

*Source: cgroup*

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_Source: https://www.imf.org/-/media/files/publications/reo/mcd-cca/2016/october/cgroup.pdf_