Low GDP Countries

Please note, in order to be eligible for the reduced Low GDP fee, you must be a current resident of a low GDP country.

The World bank data for 2023, GDP per capita is used to deterimine low-GDP status for 2025. A country has low-GDP status when its annual per capita GDP is 70 % or less than the annual per capita GDP of the European Union (for ECER 2025 this means less than $ 28.576,80).

Please note that the crucial factor for the reduced Low GDP fee is not the country of origin but the country of residence.

The only countries eligible for the low GDP (Gross Domestic Product) reduction are:

• African countries
• Asian countries (with following exceptions: Bahrain, Brunei Darussalam, Hong Kong SAR, Israel, Japan, Republic of Korea, Kuwait, Macau SAR, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, UAE)
• Latin American countries (exception: Bahamas)
• and the following countries in wider Europe:
  Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, FYR of Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia,Turkey and Ukraine.  

Delegates from all other countries need to register as Delegates from high GDP Countries.