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Eligibility for access to Research4Life

Local, not-for-profit institutions from two lists of countries, areas and territories (Group A and Group B) are eligible to join Research4Life based on five factors:

• Total GNI (World Bank figures)
• GNI per capita (World Bank figures)
• United Nations Least Developed Countries (LDC) List
• Human Development Index (HDI)
• Healthy life Expectancy (HALE) – World Health Organization Figures

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Countries, areas and territories

Core Offer countries, areas and territories

Afghanistan Angola Bangladesh Belize Benin Bhutan Burkina Faso Burundi Cabo Verde Cambodia Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo Cook Islands Côte d’Ivoire Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Democratic Republic of the Congo Djibouti Dominica Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Eswatini Ethiopia Gambia Ghana Grenada Guinea Guinea-Bissau Haiti Kenya Kiribati Kyrgyzstan Lao People’s Democratic Republic Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Madagascar Malawi Maldives

Mali Marshall Islands Mauritania Micronesia (Federated States of) Mozambique Myanmar Nauru Nepal Nicaragua Niger Niue Palau Papua New Guinea Rwanda Saint Helena Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Samoa Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Sierra Leone Solomon Islands Somalia South Sudan Sudan Suriname Syrian Arab Republic Tajikistan Timor-Leste Togo Tokelau Tonga Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine United Republic of Tanzania Vanuatu Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe

 

 

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Group B (low-cost access)

Albania Algeria Antigua and Barbuda Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus 1 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Colombia Cuba Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Fiji Gabon Georgia Guatemala Guyana Honduras Iraq Jamaica Jordan

Kosovo (in accordance with UN Security Council resolution 1244 (1999)) Libya Mauritius Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Namibia Nigeria North Macedonia occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem 2 Pakistan Paraguay Peru Republic of Moldova Saint Kitts and Nevis Seychelles Sri Lanka Tunisia Uzbekistan Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) Viet Nam

¹ Graduating from Core Offer in 2025
² Moving from Group B to Group A in 2025

Refugee Camps recognized by UNRWA or categorized by UNHCR as “planned/managed camps” are eligible for free Research4Life access regardless of their geographical location.

This list of countries, areas, and territories is intended for use by the Research4Life partnership only. Given the specific nature of the design of this list which incorporates factors relevant to our public-private-partnership, we recommend that anyone seeking a list of countries fitting certain criteria should consult original United Nations, UNDP, and World Bank data.

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Country offers

Content offered by publishers to institution categories within countries, areas and territories:

For publisher’s content not available through the country offers of Research4Life, you may wish to check for access through other initiatives.