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The Postal Development Indicator was developed by the
Universal Postal Union The Universal Postal Union (UPU, ) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that coordinates postal policies among member nations and facilitates a uniform worldwide postal system. It has 192 member states and is headquartered in Be ...
in 2012 to rank member countries according to various measures of an economic nature including
gross national income The gross national income (GNI), previously known as gross national product (GNP), is the total amount of factor incomes earned by the residents of a country. It is equal to gross domestic product (GDP), plus factor incomes received from ...
, population, percentage of postal home delivery, and surface area of the country. The
United Nations Economic and Social Council The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) is one of six principal organs of the United Nations, responsible for coordinating the economic and social fields of the organization, specifically in regards to the fifteen specialized ...
(ECOSOC) classifications of
least developed countries The least developed countries (LDCs) are developing countries listed by the United Nations that exhibit the lowest indicators of socioeconomic development. The concept of LDCs originated in the late 1960s and the first group of LDCs was listed b ...
(LDCs),
Small Island Developing States The Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are a grouping of developing country, developing countries which are small island country, island countries and small states that tend to share similar sustainable development challenges. These include s ...
(SIDS) and
landlocked developing countries The landlocked developing countries (LLDC) are developing country, developing countries that are landlocked country, landlocked. Due to the economic and other disadvantages suffered by such countries, the majority of landlocked countries are least ...
(LLDC) are also taken into account.


See also

* Universal Postal Union Collection * Integrated Index for Postal Development


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