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Introduction
This listing contains a selection of abbreviations and acronyms used in Bank documents in English. The acronyms are neither official nor, in some cases, even correct. Nevertheless, they are what is used or has been used. Every one has been found in a Bank document. The listing has been produced to assist translators, interpreters and other interested parties in deciphering the sometimes cryptic codes used in Bank documents. The listing does not contain: i) acronyms for organizations, except for those that are part of the World Bank Group and a few selected organizations involved in the more administrative side of the Bank; ii) acronyms in languages other than English; iii) the three- and five-letter unit codes, which can be found in the Bank's phone directory (currently page 1-1 through page 1-11) as well as in the MOC list, available on All-in-One. For your convenience, we have also added the standard country codings used (there are several - see Annex 1) and the ISO currency codes, which are increasingly used by the Bank (see Annex 2). Your contributions and suggestions for future editions will be welcome.
Other sources for acronyms and abbreviations include:
Bank units: Bank Telephone Directory (pages 1-1 through 1-11) and Master Organization Code (MOC), available through All-In-One; Abbreviations found in Bank documents in English, French and Spanish: Communications and Style Guide Statement 4.00; Yearbook ofInternational Organizations (available from Bank libraries); General: Bank libraries have many dictionaries of acronyms and abbreviations in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German and other languages.
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4GL fourth generation language
AA administrative assistant
AAC Administrative Advisory Committee
AAD at a discount
AADT annual average daily traffic
AB average drawn and outstanding borrowings
ABD all but dissertation
ABP annual business plan
ABR annual biting rate
ABS acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene
ABS Administrative Budget System
ACBF African Capacity Building Foundation
ACBI African Capacity Building Initiative
ACE AMEX Commodities Exchange
ACF average cost of funds
ACH automated clearing house
ACP African, Caribbean and Pacific (States)
ACRS accelerated cost recovery system
ACU Asian Currency Unit
ACV actual cash value
AD agriCUltural demonstrator
ADBP agricultural development bank project
ADF agricultural development fund
ADP agricultural development project
ADP automatic data processing
ADR after debt rescheduling
ADR American Depositary Receipt
ADR asset depreciation range
ADS American Depositary Share
ADS agricultural development services
ADSA Applications Development Structured Approach
ADT average daily traffic
AE architecture and engineering
AEA average earning assets
AEF African Enterprise Fund
AEO agricultural extension officer
AEPRP African Economic Policy Reform Program [US]
AER Annual Evaluation Review
AER applicable exchange rate
AES anti-epidemic station
AETR average effective tax rate
AEZ agroecological zone
AFS annual financial savings
AGEM Applied General Equilibrium Model
AgGDP,AGDP agricultural gross domestic product
AGI agricultural inputs [OD procurement code]
2 Bank acronyms
AGNP agricultural gross national product
AgSECAL, AgSAL agricultural sector adjustment loan
AI accrued interest
AlC average incremental cost
AIDS acquired immune-deficiency syndrome
AL adjustment lending
AL country receiving adjustment loans
AL&EP average disbursed loan and equity portfolios net of loss reserves
ALCID Adjustment Lending Conditionality and Implementation Database
ALE adult labor equivalent
ALL average loan life
ALP average disbursed loan portfolio net of loss reserves
ALP liquid assets in the hands of the public
AL,Q8tEP average disbursed loan, quasiequity and equity portfolios net of loss reserves
ALQP average liquid asset portfolio
AMA Asset Management Account
AMEX American Stock Exchange
AMMS Automated Material Management System
AMR adult mortality rate
AMR appropriate market rate
AMS Administrative Manual Statement
AMS aggregate measure of support
AMSC, AMSCo African Management Services Company
AMTA Agricultural Management Training for Africa Prosram
ANDREX Application Network for Derivation and Retrieval in Express
ANGO African non sovemmental orsanization
AOF administrative. operational costs. fees [OD procurement code]
AOTA administration and organization of training activities
APB Accounting Principles Board
APBO Accumulated Post-retirement Benefit Obligation
APD agricultural price deflator
APDF African Project Development Facility
APER Annual Portfolio Evaluation Report [IFC]
API alternative participation instrument
API application programming interface
APLL allowance for potential loan and lease losses
APPER Africa's Priority Programme for Economic Recovery [UN]
APR annual percentage rate
APS Automated Procurement System
3 Bank acronyms
API' ARRC ASIWG arbitrage pricing theory Alien Registration Receipt Card African Staff Issues Working
[US] Group AR agricultural revolution ARS ASR
anticipatory rate setting agricultural sector report AR Annual Review (of Project ARS ASR Performance) Automatic Route Selection Annual Supervision Report
ARC AS AT AIDS-related complex administrative secretary appropriate technology
ARCS AS ATL Audit Reports Compliance Attitude Survey action threshold level System
ASAC ATM ARD agricultural sector lUljustment at the money agriculture and rural credit development ATM
ASAL automatic teller machine ARETP agricultural sector adjustment agriCUltural research extension loan ATP and training project
ASAL annual transmission potential
ARI arid and semi-arid lands ATR accounting rate of interest
ASAO average tariff rate
ARI Agricultural Sector Adjustment ATRR acute respiratory infection Operation allocated transfer risk reserves
ARIS ASCn AU Annual Report on American Standard Code for animal unit Implementation and Information Interchange Supervision BA
ASE banker's acceptance ARM American Stock Exchange adjustable rate mortgage BAC
ASF bank advisory committee ARP assipable square feet adjustable rate preferred stock BAN
ARP ASFR age-specific fertility rate
bond anticipation note
agricultural rehabilitation BAS program ASIL Budget Accounting System
agriculture sector investment ARP loan BAS agriCUltural research project Business Advisory Service
4 Bank acronyms
BATNA BER BOE Best Alternative to a basic economic report barrels of oil equivalent Negotiated Agreement
BESD BOF BB Bank Economic and Social basic oxygen furnace bacterial blight Database
BONUS BB BF borrower's option for notes and borrowing bank blended funds underwritten standby
BBL BFCO BOO barrel Bank-Fund Conferences Office build-own-and-operate
BCA BFSFCU BOOT benefit-cost analysis Bank-Fund Federal Staff Credit build-own-operate-transfer
Union BCF BOP billion cubic feet BtL balance of payments
bill of lading BCM BOT billion cubic meter BLUE build-operate-transfer
best linear unbiased estimator BCR BOY benefit-cost ratio BMCS beginning of year
Building Management and BCn Control System BP basic case reproduction rate
BMR basis points
BID balancing, modernization and BP barrels per day replacement business plan
BD BMR BPC budget deficit basal metabolic rate Ad Hoc Committee on Board
Procedures BOO BMR bottom dropped out building maintenance and BPD
repairs barrels per day BDOE barrels per day of oil BMW BPO equivalent bonded manufacturing blanket purchase order
warehouse
BDR BPTF before debt rescheduling BOD Budget Process Task Force
biochemical oxygen demand
BRSA BODS Borrowed Resources Suspense biochemical oxygen demand Account [IMP] over five days
5 Bank acronyms
BSFF CAMEL CB buffer stock financing facility capital. assets, management, competitive bidding [IMF] earnings. liquidity
CB BTN CAN current blend Brussels Tariff Nomenclature calcium ammonium nitrate
CBA BTO CAP cost-benefit analysis back-to-office (report) Career Advisory Program
CBC BTOR CAP classical biological control back-to-office report Common Agricultural Policy
CBn BTU CAP community-based distribution British Thermal Unit Country Assessment Paper
CBF BUA CAPM Central Bank Facility Bank unit of account [ADB] capital assets pricing model
CBM CA CAR central bank money stock current account Central African Republic
CBO CAB CARD community based organization current account balance certificate of amortized
revolving debt CBOE CAC Chicago Board Options command and control CARS Exchange
Computerized Appraisal Report CAD System CBOT cash against documents Chicago Board of Trade
CAS CAD cash (resources) CBP computer aided design country background paper
CAS CAD current account structure CBPP current account deficit
CASE contagious bovine pleuropneumonia
CADB computer-aided software Cost Accounting nata Base engineering CBR
California Bearing Ratio CAl CATS computer aided instruction Certificate of Accrual on CBR
Treasury Securities crude birth rate CAM computer aided manufacture CATS CBS
Computer Assisted Trading Capital Budget System [BAS] CAM System country assistance management CBT
Chicago Board of Trade
6 Bank acronyms
CC CDIT CES callable capital Country Department country evaluation system
Information Tables [IMF] CC carrying capacity COO CESP
community development officer Country Environmental CCA Strategy Paper cunent cost accounting CDP
community development CESW CCCP program country economic and sector Capital Cities Clean-Up Project work
CDR CCD crude death rate CET Cross Country Database Comprehensive Economic
CDS Table
CCFF Common Data Store Compensatory and Contingency CIF Financing Facility [lMF] CEA clearing and forwarding
Commodity Exchange CCF Authority CF consumption conversion factor conversion factor
CEBP CCL Committee on Cost CF critical consumption level Effectiveness and Budget cubic feet
Practices CD CFBH career development CECC Corporation of Foreign
Credit Extension Coordinating Bondholders
CD Committee
Certificate of Deposit CEE
CFC chlorofluorocarbon
CD Central and Eastern Europe
community development CEIC
CFC controlled foreign corporation
CD closed-end investment company
country department, division CEM
CFF Compensatory Financing
CDD country economic Facility [IMF]
country department director memorandum CFM
CDAP CEO Capital Flows Model
Career Development Advisory Program
chief executive officer
CES CFM consolidated funding
CDD constant elasticity of mechanism
control of diarrheal diseases substitution CFS
CDI CES Corporate Financial Services
cate d'Jvoire Country Environmental Studies [IFC]
7 Bank acronyms
CFTC CIS COD Commodities Futures Trading Commitment Information country operations division Commission System
CODAM CG CISC Committee on Directors' Consultative Group complex iDstruction set Administrative Matters
computer CGE CODC computable general equilibrium CKD country operations division model completely knocked down chief
CGIAR CLC COLA Consultative Group on community leaming center cost of living allowance, International Agricultural adjustment Research CM
call of more COLTS ClIP Continuously Offered combined heat and power CM Longer-Term Securities
construction management CHRIS COM Comprehensive Human CMA committed (resources) Resources Information System cash-management account
COPD CHW CME country operations department, community health worker Chicago Mercantile Exchange division
CIARL CMO COPS Compact International collateralized mortgage covered option securities Agricultural Research Library obligation
COPS CIF CMR Continuously Offered Payment cost. iDsurance and freight child mortality rate Rights in Swiss Francs
CIP CMS COR cataloging-in-publication (data) World Bank Capital Markets contracts officer's
System representative cm country implementation review CNG COUGHs
compressed natural gas Certificates of Government CIRR Receipts commercial interest reference CNT rate connect time [ITF charges] COVP
Ad Hoc Committee on Voting CIS COB Powers of Smaller Members Candidate Information System close of business [CGIAR] COW
COD Committee of the Whole
cbemical oxygen demand
8 Bank acronyms
CIP CPS CSFR charter party characters per second Czech and Slovak Federal
Republic CP CPS commercial paper contraceptive prevalence survey CSP
Country Strategy Paper CP CPS cooperative program credit to non-state sector C-TAP
Contract Temporary CP CPU Assignment Program country program central processing unit
CTF CPAR CRF cable, telex and fax country procurement assessment report
capital recovery factor CTF
CRPF consultant trust fund CPD chloroquine-resistant corporate planning and Plasmodium falciparum CTFE budgeting Consultant Trust Fund for the
CRI Environment CPDP Country Program and Budget
consumption rate of interest CTPS
Paper CRM Cash Transaction Processing Center for Resource System
CPDF Management [US] Caribbean Project Development CU Facility CRR credit union
cash reserve ratio CPE CU centrally planned economy CRS currency unit
CPI Creditor Reporting System [OECD] CUt
cargo performance index capacity utilization CS
CPI community survey CV consumer price index curriculum vitae
CSA CPM Committee of Sponsoring CVBC critical path method Agencies [OCP1 Ad Hoc Committee on the
Valuation of Bank Capital CPO CSA Chief Personnel Officer Consultant Services Adviser CVD
countervailing duty CPP CSD country program paper child survival and development CWG
Compensation Working Group CPR CSE [Staff Association1 contraceptive prevalence rate consumer subsidy equivalent
9 Bank acronyms
CWRS DC DEL Canadian Western Red Spring division chief direct exchange line (wheat)
DCA DES CY development credit agreement dietary energy supply calendar year
DCE DES CYA domestic credit expansion duty exemption system cover your ass
DCF DFC CZM discounted cash flow development finance company coastal zone management
DCFRR DFI DA discounted cash flow rates of development finance institution Delegate Assembly [Staff retum Association] DFI
DCP direct foreign investment DAC (Bank-wide) Division Chiefs Development Assistance Panel DFL Committee [OECD] debt funding liquidity
DCP DACON droppages, cancellations and DHS Data on Consulting Firms prepayments demographic and health survey
DAE DCR DHS Task Force of Donors to data communication request demographic and household African Education survey
DCR DAI domestic content requirement DIM Development Alternatives dual index mortgage Incorporated DDRA
debt deferral and restructured DIS DAIS agreement Donors to African Education Developmental Assignment Information System Information Service DDS
duty drawback system DM DAM demand assessment model DDSR
dry MaUer
debt and debt service reduction DME DAP developed market economy diammonium phosphate DIE
DBMS database management system
debt-equity ratio
DEBTEST
DMEC developed market economy country
Aggregate Debt Estimates DC DMG direct contracting DEC Drylands Management
Digital Equipment Corporation Guidelines
10 Bank acronyms
DMP DRS E&ME development management deferred rate setting Europe and Middle East project
DRS EA DOD domestic rate of substitution enumeration area debt outstanding and disbursed
DRT EA DONGO domestic rate of transformation environmental assessment donor-organiz.ed non governmental organization DS EA
debt service executive assistant DOS disk operating system DSCR EA
debt service coverage ratio extended arrangement [IMF] DOT direction of trade DSL EAD
DP debt service liability Employment Authorization
Document [US INS] direct purchasing DSM
Debt Strategy Module EAG DPI equipment, agriculture rOD dots per inch DSM procurement code]
demand side management DPT EAL diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus DSR export adjustment loan
debt service ratio, reduction DRC EAOD domestic resource cost DTC Environmental Assessment
desk top copier Operational Directive DRCC domestic resource cost DTP EAP coefficient desktop publishing enlarged access policy [IMP]
DRF D1W EAP Daily Range Factor deep tubewell Environmental Action Plan
DRG DUP EAR diagnostically related group directly unproductive profit enlarged access to the Fund's
seeking activities resources [IMF] DRI Data Resources Incorporated DW EAR
Durbin-Watson (statistics) Environmental Assessment DROPS Report debt reduction operations DWT
deadweight tonnage EAS DRS economic advisory staff Debtor Reporting System E&D
exploration and development EBF extra-budgetary funds
Bank acronyms 11
EBIT ECP EED earnings before interest and Eurocommercial paper equipment, educational rOD taxes procurement code]
ECU EBM European Currency Unit EEIG Expenditure Budgeting Model European economic interest
ED grouping EBT executive director earnings before taxes EEL
EDA equipment, electrical rOD EC executive director's assistant procurement code] economic cost
EDF EEP EC export development fund equipment, energy exploration, Executive Committee [Staff production rOD procurement Association] EDI code]
ECA Economic Development Institute EEZ
Europe and Central Asia exclusive economic zone EDL
ECA export development loan EFA export credit agency Education for All
EDP ECDC electronic data processing EFF economic cooperation among Extended Fund Facility [IMF] developing countries EDP
ECDP environmentally adjusted net domestic product
EFS environmentally friendly
Evaluation Capability system Development Program EDP
ECE equipment, data processing rOD procurement code]
EFSAL enterprise and financial sector
Eastern and Central Europe adjustment loan EDP
ECF Executive Development EFSRL External Contingency Facility Program economic and financial reform [IMP] support loan
EDP ECM export development project EFf error correction model electronic funds transfer
EdSAC ECN education sector adjustment EGS equipment, construction rOD credit exports of goods and services procurement code]
EDT EIA ECO total external debt environmental impact Expanded Cofinancing assessment Operations program
12 Bank acronyms
EIAL early intensive adjustment lending (country)
EIB environmental issues brief
ElL economic injury level
EIP environmental issues paper
EIP equipment, industrial plants [OD procurement code]
EIRR economic internal rate of return
ElS Economic Information System [lMF]
ElS Environmental Information System
EIT economic indicator table
ELRS Electronic Logging and Routing System
ELS extra-long staple [cotton]
EM electronic mail
EMD equipment, medical rOD procurement code]
EMDB Emerging Markets Data Base
EME equipment, mechanical [OD procurement code]
EME Europe and the Middle East
EMENA Europe, Middle East and North Africa
EMGF Emerging Markets Growth Fund
EMIF Emerging Markets Investment Fund
EMN equipment, mining [OD procurement code1
EMP economic management project
EMP economic modernization program
EMR external management review [CGIAR]
EMS economic management support
EMS European Monetary System
EMSAP economic management and social action project
EMTN medium-term Euronote
EN Enterprise Network
ENGO environmental non governmental organization
ENI environmentally adjusted net income
ENI environmentally adjusted national income
ENVIS Environmental Information System
ENVP net present value in efficiency prices
EOB Explanation of Benefits
EOD entry on duty
EOY end of year
EPC effective protection coefficient
EPI Expanded Programme of Immunization
EPIW Environmental Program for International Waters
EPM Environmental Program for the Mediterranean
EPP equal payments of principal
EPP equivalent purchasing power
Bank acronyms 13
EPR ERP ESL effective protection rate economic rehabilitation energy sector loan
program EPR ESM external program review ERP economic and sector [CGIAR] Economist Review Panel management
EPS ERP ESM earnings per share effective rate of protection Education Simulation Model
EPS ERP ESMAP Executive Project Summary export rehabilitation project Energy Sector Management
Assistance Programme EPZ -ERR export processing zone economic rate of return ESOP
employee stock ownership plan ER ERSL environmental review economic reform support loan ESP
electrostatic precipitator ERC ESAC economic recovery credit energy sector adjustment credit ESRP
economic and social ERC ESAF rehabilitation program economic restructuring credit Enhanced Structural
Adjustment Facility [lMF] ESW ERDI economic and sector work exchange rate deviation index ESAL
energy sector adjustment loan ETB ERER Evaluation Textbase equilibrium real exchange rate ESAP
energy sector adjustment ETL ERIP program economic threshold level Early Retirement Incentive Program (1984) ESC ETL
effective subsidy coefficient equipment, telecommunications ERL [On procurement code] economic recovery loan ESDE
ecologically sustainable ETR ERL development economics equipment, transportation [On emergency reconstruction loan
ESF procurement code]
ERL economic support fund EU emergency recovery loan
ESF evaluation unit
ERM Emergency Social Fund EUA Exchange Rate Mechanism
ESID European Unit of Account
ERP ecologically sustainable EURCO economic recovery program industrial development European Composite Unit
14 Bank acronyms
EVP Executive Vice President
EWOP enterprise cash flow without the project
EWP enterprise cash flow with the project
EWS Economist's Workstation -EWS equipment, water supply and sewera,e [OD procurement code]
EXCEL Export Credit Enhanced Leverage Program
F&O futures and options
FA financial accountin,
FA force account
FAP financial action plan
FAQ free alongside quay
FAR final avera,e remuneration
FAR floor area ratio
FAS free alongside ship
FASB Financial Accountin, Standards Board
FB full borrowin,
FC factor cost
FCD flood control and draina,e
FCG Gulf Crisis Financial Coordination Group
FCL full container load
FDB Financial Data Base
FDDI Fiber Distributed Data Intedace
FDI foreign direct investment
FEC foreign exchange component
FEPS Final Executive Project Summary
FES Final Executive Summary
FFB fresh fruit bunch
FFW food for work
FGN Federal Government of Ni,eria
FIDI female headed household
FI financial intermediary
FIA farming investment analysis
FIA farmer irrigation association
FIAS Foreign Investment Advisory Service
FIFO first in, first out
FIL financial intermediary loan
FIW first in, last out
FINCOM financial complex
FlNSAC financial sector adjustment credit
FlO free in and out
FIRR financial internal rate of return
FlS financial intermediation services
FIS Forestry Information Service
FMIS farmer managed irrigation system
Bank acronyms 15
FMP FRA FSDP (International Monetary) Fund forward rate agreement; future Financial Systems Development monitored program rate agreement Fund
FMS FRB FSIP Financial Management System Federal Reserve Bank/Board farming systems infrastructure
and policy support FMS FRC Financial Messaging System financial rehabilitation credit FSN
food security and nutrition FMS FRG flexible manufacturing system Federal Republic of Germany FSR
farming systems research FNMA -FRN Federal National Mortgage floating rate note FSR Association (Fannie Mae) financial sector reform
FRP FOB Financial Review Panel FSR&D free on board farming systems research and
FRR development FOGS financial rate of return functioning of the GATT FSRlE system FRT farming systems research and
file restoration [lTF charges] extension FOMC Federal Open Market FRT FSr Committee foreign rate of transformation factor services plus transfers
FOQ FS FSrA free on quay factor services free-standing technical
assistance FOREX FS foreign exchange food security FSTP
free-standing training project FOW FSA free on wharf forward spread agreement FSU
former Soviet Union FP FSAC family planning financial sector adjustment FTA
credit free trade agreement FPC Finance Policy Committee FSAL FTC
financial sector adjustment loan farmer training center FQ flexibility quotient FSC FTZ
farmer service center free trade zone FR fixed rate FSD FU
farming systems development forage unit
16 Bank acronyms
FWE GAP GEB family welfare educator Gulf Assistance Program government expenditure bias
FX GCA GEF foreign exchange Global Coalition for Africa Global Environment Facility
FY GCF GEM financial year; fiscal year general conversion factor Global Economic Model
FYE GCI GEP fiscal year end General Capital Increase global economics prospects
FYI GCFCG GER for your information ... Gulf Crisis Financial gross enrollment ratio
Coordination Group FYP GET five-year plan. program GCPM Global Environment Trust
General Check Printing Module Fund FYR first year rule GDE GFAF
gross domestic expenditure gross fixed asset formation G&NFS goods and non factor services GDFI GFCF
gross domestic fixed investment gross fixed capital formation GA general assistance [EOI] GDI GFS
gross domestic investment Government Finance Statistics GAAP [lMF] Generally Accepted Accounting GDP Principles gross domestic product GFSY
Government Finance Statistics GAAS GDPD Yearbook [IMF] Generally Accepted Auditing gross domestic product deflator Standards GHG
GDR greenhouse gas GAB Global Depositary Receipt General Arrangements to GHV Borrow [IMF] GDS gross heating value
Global Depositary Share GAMS GIB General Algebraic Modeling GDS government investment bias System gross domestic savings
GIC GAP GDY Group Intercom Grievance Advisory Panel gross domestic income
GIGO GAP GE garbage in, garbage out gross agricultural product general equilibrium
Bank acronyms 17
GIS GO? GSA Geographic Information System Government of?, e.g. GON = General Services
Government of Niger (Nepal, Administration [US] GJ Netherlands, New Zealand, gigajoule Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norway) GSF
gross square feet GL GOBI grade level growth monitoring, oral GSP
rehydration, breastfeeding and Generalized System of GLD immunization Preferences guided land development
GOCC GSP GMBS govemment-owned and gross social product Guide to Money and Banking controlled corporation Statistics [IMF]
GOFFEX GSTP Global System of Trade
GMP German Options and Financial Preferences gross material product Futures Exchange
GT GMP GONGO group team guaranteed minimum price government-organized non
governmental organization GTC GNE gross national expenditure GOR
general trading company
gas-to-oil ratio GTG GNFS goods and non factor services GRA
government-to-government
General Resources Account GUI GNI [IMF] graphical user interface gross national investment
GRAP GUN GNMA General Research Advisory guarantor underwritten note Government National Mortgage Panel
Association (Ginnie Mae) [US] GRIP
GUS gas utilization study
GNP Guaranteed Recovery of
gross national product Investment Principal (Program) GVAO
GNPC GRR gross value of agricultural output
gross nominal protection gross reproduction rate
coefficient GVIAO GRT gross value of industrial and
GNS gross (register) tonnage agricultural output gross national savings
GS GVP GNY goods and services gross value product gross national income
GW gigawatt
18 Bank acronyms
GWh HIMIC HRM gigawatt hour heavily indebted middle income human resources management
country GWP HRP global warmina potential HIMIC Special Programme of
highly indebted middle income Research, Development and IlAGR country Research Training in Human highest average po88 Reproduction remuneration IDV
human immunodeficiency virus HRS JIBS Human Resources Strategy household budget survey IDWG
Health Issues Working Group HSAL HC health sector adjustment loan hydrocarbon IlL
higher level lIT HCI high tension heavy and chemical industry IlL
hybrid loan HTW HCR hand tubewell head count ratio HLF
high load factor HV lID heating value health district lILT
highly leveraged transaction HVAC IIDM heating, ventilation and air-Highways Design and lILT conditioning Maintenance Model home leave travel
HYB lIES HMG hybrid loan household expenditure survey Her, His Majesty's
Government HYV HESSEA high yielding variety household expenditure and HMO small scale economic activity health maintenance organization IA (survey) intermediary agency
HR HFCS human resources IA high fnJctose com syrop investment authority
HRD HFS human resource development IADP health financinaand intepated aancultural sustainability HRDP development project
human resource development mc proaram lAG heavily indebted country International Auditin,
HRIC Guidelines mc Human Resources Information highly indebted country Center
Bank acronyms 19
IAPSO ICASE ICS Inter-Agency Procurement intepated computer-aided improved cook stove Services Office software enaineerin,
ICSID IAR ICB Intematioua1 Center for institutional apex report internatioua1 competitive Settlement of Investment
bidding Disputes IAR Investment Assessment Report ICDP ID
integrated conservation institutioua1 development IARC development project international agricultural IDA research centers ICDS Intematioua1 Development
Industry Council for Association lAS Development Services International Accounting IDM Standards ICERC Intematioua1 Development
Intera,ency Country Exposure Association Ninth IBCA Review Committee [U.S.] Replenishment International Banking and Credit Analysis ICM me
international capital market interest during construction IBF international banking facility ICM IDD
international competitiveness international direct dialin, IBOR marain interbank offered rate IDD
ICON iodine deficiency disorder IBOS indexed currency option note International Business IDMS Opportunities Service ICOR Internal Documents
incremental capital-outpul ratio Manaaement System IBS International Banking Statistics ICOs IDF [IMF] international commodity industrial development and
organizations finance IBTF initiating brief for a trust fund ICP IDF
International Comparison Institutioua1 Development Fund ICAs Project; International international commodity Comparison PfOJl1UJlD1e IDR. agreements Intematioua1 Depositary
ICR Receipt ICAS import-consumption ratio Integrated Corporate IDP Accounting System [lFC] ICR. institutional development
interest covera,e ratio proJllDl
20 Bank acronyms
IDS International Development Strategy
lOT irrigation and drainage technologies
IDU Internal Documents Unit
IE IDA-eligible country
IE Inter-Country Exchange of Experience [EDI]
IEC information-educationcommunication
IEPS Initial Executive Project Summary
IER impact evaluation report
IERR internal economic rate of return
IFB invitation for bid
IFBAC International Foundation for Building African Capacity
IFC International Finance Corporation
IFI international financial institution
IFS International Financial Statistics [IMF]
IG investment guidelines
lGO intergovernmental organization
IISC Institutional Information Services Center
ILF intermediate load factor
ILS international and local shopping
1M initiating memorandum
IMM International Monetary Market
IMMS International Money Management System
IMR infant mortality rate
IMT intermediate means of transportation
IMTPC Information Management Technology Policy Committee
IMTI information management and technology training
INIS Infrastructure Information Service
INS Immigration and Naturalization Service [US]
10M International Options Market
lOT input-output table
IPF Indicative Planning Figures
IPM integrated pest management
IPO initial public offering
IPP individual performance plan
IPR import penetration ratio
IPR Initial Project Review
IPrRID International Program for Technology Research in Irrigation and Drainage
IR institutional reserve
IRA individual retirement account
IRDP integrated rural development program, project
IRI interactive radio instruction
IRI investment rate of interest
Bank acronyms 21
IRM ISP JCC information resource information systems planning Joint Compensation Committee management [Joint BanklFund Committee of
ISP Executive Directors on Staff IRP Institutional System Plan Compensation] intemational reference prices
ISRP JEU IRR Institutional Staff Review Panel Job Evaluation Unit internal rate of retum
ISSN JGB IRTAC International Standard Series Japanese Government bond industrial rehabilitation and Number trade adjustment credit JGF
IT Japanese Grant Facility (for the IS information technology Environment) integrated survey
ITAC JIT IS Information Technology just-in-time manufacturing international shopping Advisory Committee
JL ISAL ITB Joint Library industrial sector adjustment invitation to bid loan JOLIS
ITM Joint Library Information ISBN in the money System International Standard Book Number ITPA JPC
industrial and trade policy Joint Programme Committee ISC adjustment [Onchocerciasis Control Information Security Programme] Committee ITPAC
industrial and trade policy JTL ISC adjustment credit Joint Library information services center
ITPAL JV ISDN industrial and trade policy joint venture integrated services digital adjustment loan network KAP
ITSAL knowledge, attitudes and ISG industry and trade sector practice International Securities Group adjustment loan
KCF ISIC JAC capital goods conversion factor International Standard Joint Audit Committee Industrial Classification of All KGOE Economic Activities [UN] kilograms of oil equivalent
ISP Information Strategy Plan
22 Bank acronyms
KISS LCC LF keep it short and simple; keep load carrying capability load factor it short and sweet
LCE LFM KPF London Commodity Exchange labor force model Kohn Pedersen Fox [Main Complex architects] LCF LFP
labor conversion factor labor force participation KPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick LCFAll LFPR Goerdeler [auditors] liabilities constituting foreign labor force participation rate
authorities'reserves KWH LFS kilowatt hour LCL labor force survey
LAC less than carload freight
LHV Latin America and the LCL low heating value Caribbean less than container load
U LAC LCP large-scale industry least advanced country local content proaram
LI LAMIC LCU lower income low- and middle income local currency unit country UB
LAMP LO land development
limited international bidding
Loan Administration LlBID Modernization Project LOC London Interbank Bid Rate
LAN less developed country
LlBOR local area network LDOD London Interbank Offered Rate
LARS long-term debt outstanding and disbursed UC
Leave and Attendance Recording System LOP
low-income country
letter of development policy LICOM LBO leveraged buyout LOS
London Interbank Currency Options Market
LC Loan Disbursement System
LIFFE letter of credit LEAP London International Financial
LC lending, economy and proaram (files)
Futures Exchange
local currency LIFO LEK last in. first out
LCB land equivalent. equivalency local competitive bidding ratio UMEAN
London Interbank Mean Rate
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UK WS LT labor-capital length of stay low tension
LLDCs LP LTA least developed countries [UN] linear programming Long Term Arrangement
regarding International Trade LLF LPG in Cotton Textiles lowest logical fare liquefied petroleum gas
LTB LLP LPR long-term blended cost rate low lift pump lines printed on system printer
[ITF charges] LTC LM long-term care (insurance) lower-middle income LRAIC
long-run average incremental LTDS LMA cost long-term debt service land market assessment
LRMC LTOM LMBO long-run marginal cost London Traded Options Market leveraged management buyout
LS LTPR LME local shopping long-term prime rate [Japan] London Metal Exchange
LSE LTPS LMIC London Stock Exchange Long-Term Perspective Study lower middle income country
LSI [Sub-Saharan Mrica - From Crisis to Sustainable Growth)
LMT long- and medium-term
large-scale irrigation LTV
LSMS loan-to-value
LNG Living Standards Measurement liquefied natural gas Study LWO
local women's organizations
LNO LSP letter of no objection Loan Service Payments System LWOP
leave without pay
WCB LSR London Options Clearing Land Settlement Review LY House low-income country
LSS WI Living Standards Survey LYON letter of intent liquid yield option note
LSSP WI Living Standards Survey MA letter of invitation Package management assistance
WLP LT MIA loss of load probability 10nB-term management and administration
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M&E MCC MDF monitoring and evaluation marginal capacity cost municipal development fund
MAA MCDB MDI management and administration moisture content dry basis management development and associated with work programs training institution
MCF MAC thousand cubic feet MDI maximum allowable multilateral development concentration MCFD institution
MADIA thousand cubic feet per day
MDP Managing Agricultural MCH municipal development Development in Africa maternal and child health program
MAl MCH MDS mean annual increment mother and child health Multi-Donor Secretariat
MAP MCM MEDPAN Mediterranean Action Plan thousand cubic meters Mediterranean Protected Area
Network MAP MCO monoammonium phosphate materials. construction rOD MEIP
MAS procurement code] Metropolitan Environmental
Improvement Program mutually agreed separation
MAUT
MCO miscellaneous charge order MENA
Middle East and North Africa multi-attribute utility theory MCPP
Mid-Career Professionals MEP MBOOE Program monitoring. evaluation and millions of barrels per day oil planning equivalent
MBI
MCRP main complex rehabilitation project
MERM Multilateral Exchange Rate
market-based instruments Model [IMF]
MCWB MBO moisture content wet basis METAP management by objectives Mediterranean Environmental
MD Technical Assistance Program MBS mortgage-backed security
managing director METR
MDB marginal effective tax rate
MCA monetary compensation amount
multilateral development bank MFA
MDF most favorably affected
MBWA management by walking around
Management Development Fund MFA
Multifibre Arrangement
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MFF MIMIC MMI Modular Financial Forecasting moderately indebted middle- Major Market Index Model income country
MMMF MFN MIP Margaret McNamara Memorial most-favored nation Medical Insurance Plan Fund
MFP MIS MMMF management and finance plans management information money market mutual fund
system MGNFS MMR manufacturing goods and non- MJ maternal mortality rate factor services megajoule
MNC MGS MLA multinational company imports of goods and services Master Loan Agreement
MO? MGWh MLF Ministry of? (e.g. MOF = megawatt hour Management Loan Fund Ministry of Finance)
MIHI MLF MoA male headed household Multicountry Loan Facility Minister of Agriculture
MI MLI MOC minimum increase multilateral lending institution Master Organization Code
MIBOR MLR MOC Madrid Interbank Offered Rate minimum lending rate [UK] Ministry of Commerce
MIC MLT MOE middle-income country medium- and long-term Minister of Economy,
Education, Energy MIGA MMCFD Multilateral Investment million cubic feet per day (gas) MOF Guarantee Agency Minister of Finance
MMCM Mil million cubic meters MOF most immediately impacted multioption facility
MMCMD MIIC million cubic meters per day MOFF most immediately impacted (gas) multioption financing facility country
MMF MOB MILIC man-made fibers Minister of Health. Housing moderately indebted low-income country MMF MOl
money market fund Minister of Industry. the Interior
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MON motor octane number
MOP Memorandum and Recommendations of the President
MOP Minister of PIanning
MOS Monthly Operational Summary
MOSE market-oriented socialist economy
MOT Minister of Tourism, Trade, Transportation, the Treasury
MOU memorandum of understanding
MOV maintenance of value
MOW Minister of Works
MOY middle of year
MP market price
MPC marginal propensity to consume
MPE modified planned economy
MPH Minister of Public Health
MPI manufacturing price index
MPL marginal productivity of labor
MPM Manpower Policy Model
MPP marginal physical product
MPP minimum price policy
MPS Management Practices Survey
MPS market price support
MPS Material Product System
MPW Minister of Public Works
MQM money and quasi-money
MRM Manpower Requirements (projection) Model
MRS marginal rate of substitution
MSAs most seriously affected (countries)
MSU modular support unit
MSY maximum sustainable yield
MT metric ton
MTBE methyl tertiary butyl ether
MTBF medium-term budget framework
MTBPF Medium-Term Budget Planning Framework
MTC Minister of Transportation and Communications
MTEP medium-term expenditure plan
MTF medium-term framework
MTM Manual Transmittal Memorandum
MTME millions of tons of maize equivalent
MTN medium-term note
MTN multilateral trade negotiations
MTPF medium-term policy framework
MTPY millions of tons per year
MTR import tax revenue
MTR marginal tax rate
MTR Midterm Review
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MULTIMOD NA NBV multi-region econometric model national accounts net book value [IMP]
NAE NCD MUV newlyagm-industrialized non communicable disease (World Bank) Manufacturing economy Unit Value NCE
NAIC non conventional energy MV North Atlantic industrial modem varieties [plants] country NCR
net cash requirements MVA NAL megavolt-ampere country not receiving NCS
adjustment loans non callable securities MVP marginal value product NARS NCU
national agricultural research national currency unit MWAR system. service married women of reproductive age NASD
NCV net calorific value
National Association of MWP Securities Dealers NDP Master Work Program
NASDAQ net domestic product
MVA National Association of NEAP manufacturing value added Securities Dealers Automated National Environmental Action
Quotations Plan MVA megavolt-ampere NaTCAP NEC
National Technical Cooperation not elsewhere classified MX Assessment and Programmes
manufacturing exporter [UNDP] NEI not elsewhere included
MY NAV middle-income country net asset value NER
MYNRS NB net energy ratio
multi-year non-regular staff net benefits NFS
MYR NBBF not elsewhere specified
mid-year review net benefit before financing NFDI
MYRA NBF national financial development institution
multi-year restructuring agreement
not bank financed
NBI NFDM non fat dry matter
NA Nikkei Bond Index
not applicable. available NFE non formal education
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NFl new financial instrument
NFl nonregulated financial institution
NFP natural family planning
NFS non factor services
NGL natural gas liquids
NGO non governmental organization
NIlS national health service
NHSCP national household survey capability program
NHV net heating value
NIA New Investment Authority
NIC newly industrialized country
NIC newly industrializing country
NICA non·interest current account
NIE newly industrialized economy
NIE newly industrializing economy
nie not included elsewhere
NIEC newly industrializing economy
NIEO New International Economic Order
NIF note issuance facility
NIMBY not in my backyard
NIR nominal interest rate
N/K net benefit investment ratio
NLC northern limit of cultivation
NLP non linear programming
NLTPS National Long·Term Perspective Study
NMC New Main Complex
NME non market economy
NMP net material product
NMV non motorized vehicle
NNGO Northern non governmental organization
NNP net national product
NNPC net nominal protection coefficient
NODC non oil developing country
NODC non OPEC developing country
NOL net other liabilities
NOW negotiable order of withdrawal
NOs: nitrogen oxides
NP negotiated purchasing
NPC nominal protection coefficient
NPE nonfinancial public enterprise
NPR nominal protection rate
NPV net present value
NPW net present worth
NRM natural resource management
NRMS natural resource management systems
NRP nominal rate of protection
NRR net reproduction rate
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NRS OA ODA non-regular staff office assistant official development assistance
NRT OAL ODCC net register tonnage other adjustment lending Operations Division Chief
(country) [i.e. not EIAL] Committee NRT nutrition rehabilitation center OB ODS
output-oriented budgeting ozone-depleting substances NSR not separately recorded OBS OEIC
off-balance sheet open-end investment company NTA national training authority OBU OEM
offshore banking unit original equipment NTB manufacturer non tariff barrier OC
Operations Committee OER NTM official exchange rate non tariff measure OCC
opportunity cost of capital OFR NWHMES on-farm research national household welfare OCC monitoring and evaluation Options Clearing Corporation OGIL system open general import license
OCP NWIA Onchocerciasis Control OGIP New World Investment Fund Program original gas-in-place
NYD OCR OGL not yet due optical character recognition open general license
NYFE OCT OIC New York Futures Exchange overseas countries and Operations Information
territories Committee NYME New York Mercantile OCTF OID Exchange Official Cofmancing and Trust original issue discount
Fund Management NYSE OIDC New York Stock Exchange OD oil importing developing
Operational Directive country O&M operations and maintenance OD OIS
oven dry Operations Information System OaM organization and methods OlD OJT
origin/destination on-the-job training
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OIK OPMIS OSP output-capital Operations Management overdue service payment
Information System OLE OSY object linking and embedding OPN out-of·school youth
Operations Policy Note OLIC OT other low income country OPP office technology
official producers' prices OLS OTA ordinary least squares OPS office technology assistant
Operations Complex OM OTC office manager OPS office technology coordinator
Operations Procurement OMA System OTC orderly marketing arrangements over the counter
OPS OMC other public sector entities OTF (Federal Reserve) Open Market Ozone Projects Trust Fund Committee [US] O/R
on return OTM OMIC other middle income country OR
out of the money
operations research OTRIP OMO other transfer risk problems open market operations
OMS
ORC Organization Responsibility Chart
O/W of which
Operational Manual Statement ORS PI
OOF oral rehydration salts tirst portfolio [!FC] office occupancy fee
ORT P2 OOF oral rehydration therapy second portfolio [!FC] other official flows
OSI PA OOIP Organization Studies, Inc. pedagogical assistance [EDI] originaloil·in·place
OSJF PA OPAS Office Support lob Family pastoral association Operational Assistance
OSP PA OPI Occupational Streams Project per annum overall pay increase
OSP PA OPM outside plant program assistant other people's money
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PAA PAP PC Personnel and Administration policy action planning President's Council Complex
PAP PCB PAASMG Priority Action Programme polychlorinated biphenyl Personnel and Administration [MAP] . Senior Managers' Group PCE
PAPSCA personal consumption PAC Program to Alleviate Poverty expenditures Interdepartmental Committee and the Social Costs of on Planning Assumptions Adjustment PCF
project cash flow PADP PAR policy analysis and data performance audit report PCI program participating credit institution
PAS PAF Policy and Advisory Services PCR Personnel Action Form [MIGA] project completion report
PAF PAVE PCU plant availability factor pay-as-you-eam President's Council unit
PAG PB PCU Preparatory Assistance to the participating bank project control unit Government (Mission)
PB PCU PAD project brief project coordination unit polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon PBAC PD
Pension Benefits position description PAIP Administration Committee population action and PDI investment plan PBAS past due interest
Polish Business Advisory PAL Service PDI program adjustment loan Personnel Decisions. Inc.
PBIS PAM Planning and Budgeting PDI project analysis and Information System private development institution management
PBX PDK PAMRG private branch exchange permanent disk: storage [lTF Personnel and Administration Managers Review Group PC
charges]
per capita PDR PAMSCAD People's Democratic Republic Program of Assistance to PC Mitigate the Social Costs of Portfolio Committee [IFC] Adjustment
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PDRY People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
PDS person-days
PE public enterprise
PEARL public enterprise administration and reform loan
PEF performance evaluation file
PEID public enterprise institutional development
PEID public enterprise institutional development project
PEM protein-energy malnutrition
PEP petroleum exploration promotion
PEP project experience profile
PEP public expenditure program
PER price-earning ratio; PIE ratio
PER public expenditure review
PERAL public enterprise reform adjustment loan
PEREL public enterprise reform execution loan
PERL public enterprise rationalization loan
PERL public enterprise reform loan
PERL public enterprise rehabilitation loan
PERT program evaluation and review technique
PESAP public enterprise sectoral adjustment program
PESECAL public enterprise sector adjustment loan
PET potential evapotranspiration
PFAS Private Sector Finance and Advisory Services
PFBC pressurized fluidized bed combustion
PFC Pension Finance Committee
PFCE private final consumption expenditure
PFI participating financial intermediary, institution
PFMO public financial management operation
PFP Policy Framework Paper
PFP project financing plan
PFS Personnel Functions Study
PGP professional growth promotion
PGR poverty gap ratio
PHA periodic health assessment
PHC primary health care
PHN population, health and nutrition
PHRD, PHDRF Special Fund for Policy and Human Resources Development; Policy and Human Resources Development Fund
PHS permanent household survey
PHU percentage heat utilized
PHW primary health worker
PIB project information brief
PIBOR Paris Interbank Offered Rate
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pm PM&E PPAM project initiatina documents project monitoring and project performance audit
evaluation memorandum PIER public investment/expenditure PME PPAR review public manufacturing enterprise project performance audit
report PIF PMEAC purchase issue facility public manufacturina PPB
enterprises adjustment credit planning, programming and PIIF budgeting Project Implementation Index File
PMIS personnel management PPBS information system planning, programming,
PIO budgeting system project implementation officer PMP
pharmaceuticals, medical PPC PIP products [OD procurement personal and professional Planning for ImproVed code] competence Performance [EDI]
PMS PPF PIP Parking Management System Project Preparation Facility Public Investment Program
PMU PPG PIPR primary managing unit public and publicly guaranteed Public Investment Program Review PMU
(debt)
project management unit PPI PIR producer price index project implementation review PNG
Papua and New Guinea PPI PIR productive physical public investment review PO infrastructure
pro people's organization
PPIC project implementation unit PO Personnel Policy Issues
personnel officer Committee PKD partly knocked down PO PPM
purchase order parts per million PLF plant load factor POe PPN
program objective category products of primary necessity PM particulate matter POL PPO
petroleum, oil and lubrication preferred provider organization
PM program manager PPP
polluter pays principle
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PPP PRD PSE purchasing power parity previously rescheduled debt programs of special emphasis
PPPR PRE PSE purchasing power parity rate Policy, Research and External public sector enterprise
Affairs Complex PPR PSIP Performance Planning and PRT public sector investment Review project-related training program
PPR PRU PSM Personnel Performance Review processing resource unit public sector management
PPR PS PSRL project performance report priority survey public sector reform loan
PPS PS PSRTAL photoperiod-sensitive prudent shopping public sector reform technical
assistance loan PPS PSA preferred provider system private sector assessment PSU
primary sample unit PPS PSAP probability proportional to size priority social action program PTA
preferential trade area PPSM PSAC Public and Private Sector public sector adjustment credit PTI Management primary training institute
PSBR PQU public sector borrowing PTM Physical Quality of Life Index requirement time of day [lTF charges]
PR PSC PTN President's Report public sector corporation Procurement Technical Note
PRA PSC PrO participatory rural appraisal, public service contractor power take-off analysis
PSD PTR PRA private sector development pupil-teacher ratio Post-Retirement Medical and Life Insurance Account PSD PTT
PRC public sector deficit postal, telephone and telegraph
People's Republic of China PSDL PUC
PRe private sector development loan Procurement Users Committee
Procurement Review PSE PUF Committee producer subsidy equivalent purchase underwriting facility
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PV QM RCA present value quasi-money revealed comparative advantage
PVC QR RCC polyvinyl chloride quantitative restriction raw materials, chemicals,
commodities rOD procurement PVO QSA code] private voluntary organization Quadrennial Skills Assessment
RCI PW RaC Republic of cate d'Jvoire present worth residential and commercial
RCS PWIF R&D Revised Compensation System Price Waterhouse International Firm
research and development RD
RAFf recommendation domain PWISC present worth of incremental
revolving acceptance facility by tender RD
system cost regional department [lFC] RAL
PWP Report on Adjustment Lending RD public works program [Adjustment Lending Policies rural development
for Sustainable Growth] PWS RDA performance work statement RAM recommended daily allowance
random access memory py RDC project year RAMIS regional development
Research Administration corporation QB qualified borrowings
Management Information System RDP
rural development program QCC RAN quality control circles revenue anticipation note RE
rural electrification QDT RAP qualified domestic trust Rights Accumulation Program REC
[IMF] rural electric cooperative QI first quarter RATs RED
ready assets trusts regional environment division QII second quarter RBP REER
restrictive business practice real effective exchange rate QIII third quarter RC REIT
Records Center real estate investment trust QIV fourth quarter
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REPAC RM ROIRO Research Proposal Approval raw materials roll-onlroll-off Committee
RM ROSCA RELC resident mission rotating savings and credit research/extension linkage association committee RMAIP
Records Management and ROW REPO Archives Improvement rest of the world repurchase agreement Program
ROW RER RMI right of way real exchange rate Road Maintenance Initiative
[SSATP] RP RES. REP. repurchase agreement resident representative RMSM
revised minimum standard RP RFI model rural population rural financial institution
RMSM-X RPA RFM revised minimum standard regional procurement adviser rural financial market model - extended
RPA RFP RNW reimbursable project aid request for proposal residual net worth
RPC RFT ROA Research Policy Council Rain Forest Trust Fund return on (average (earning»
assets RPE RIC reforming, reformed planned reconstruction import credit ROC economy
return on capital RIC RPED regulated investment company RODEMAN Regional Program for
road deterioration and Enterprise Development RIL maintenance analyses rehabilitation import loan RPM
ROE resale price maintenance RIR return on equity real interest rate RPPC
ROI Research and Publications RISC return on investment Policy Council reduced instruction set computer ROM RPSG
read only memory regional professional RlL specialization group reserves-to-loans (ratio) ROM
run-of-mine RPU regional project unit
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RR RVP SAl rate resetter regional vice president sector adjustment and
investment RRA RWP rapid rural appraisal rural works program SAIBOR
Saudi Arabia interbank offered RRDS RWSG rate Records Retention and Regional Water and Sanitation Disposition Schedule Group SAL
structural adjustment lending
RSB RWSN Research Support Budget Regional Water and Sanitation SAUJEMAE
Network Student Loan Marketing
RSBP Association
Retired Staff Benefits Plan RXD revised external debt SAM
RSF social accounting matrix
rentable square feet S&P Standard and Poor SAP
RSI social action program
Relative Strength Index SA special account SAP
RSP (World Bank) Program of
regional studies program SA Special Assistance (to Member
staff assistant Countries)
RT round table SA SAP
Staff Association structural adjustment program
RTA reimbursable technical SAAS SAPP assistance Staff Association Attitude social action preparation
Survey program
RTL return to labor SAC SAPP
structural adjustment credit structural adjustment policy paperRTM
round table meeting SAC Sponsoring Agencies' SAR
RTML Committee [APDF] Staff Appraisal Report
Restricted Toxic Materials List SAD SAS
RTP sector adjustment loan Statistical Analysis System [computer statistical package] Regional Training Program
[SDA] SAF Special Mrican Facility SAT
semi-arid tropics RUF revolving underwriting facility SAF
Structural Adjustment Facility [IMF]
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SAVEM Selected Analytical Variables for Economists and Managers
SBA Stand-By Arrangement [lMF]
SBC social benefit-cost ratio
SBD sample bidding documents
SCA Special Contingent Account [lMF]
SCADA supervisory control and data acquisition
SCARP Salinity Control and Reclamation Project
SCBA social cost-benefit analysis
SCF standard conversion factor
SCF standard cubic foot
SCI selective capital increase
SCI special capital increase
SCI Committee on Staff Compensation Issues
SCN State certified nurse
SCS Staff Counseling Service
SCSI small computer system interface
SCT serial correJation test
SD specialist department [IFC]
SDA social dimensions of adjustment
SDA special development assistance
SDA Special Disbursement Account [IMP]
SDAD social dimensions of adjustment and development
SDI subsidy dependence index
SDO Secretary's Documents Office
SDR special drawing rights
SDRIBOR 6 month SDRs interbank offered rate
SE state enterprise
SEC Securities and Exchange Commission
SECAL sector adjustment loan
SEDF socio-economic development fund
SEDSP socioeconomic development support project
SEE state economy enterprise
SUA System of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting
SEG socio-economic group
SEI socialist economic integration
SELL Software Evaluation Lending Library
SEM single European market
SER shadow exchange rate
SER standard error of regression
SES socio-economic status
SESC Social and Economic Statistics Committee
SFA Special Facility for Africa
SFC specific fuel consumption
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SFF SILIC SLC Supplementary Financing severely indebted low·income Statement of Loans and Credits Facility [IMP] country
SMA SFM 81M Secondary Market Association Senior Finance Managers sector investment and (Group) maintenance loan SMART
SFR SIMIC Software for Mubt Analysis and Restrictions on Trade
self.financing ratio severely indebted middle· income country SME
SFSA small· and medium--scale Special Facility for SINTIA enterprise SulrSabaran Africa software for industrial. trade
and incentives analysis SMI SGP small· and medium--scale Special Grant Programs SIQ industry
Summary of Investment Inquiry SGSA SMS second generation special SIR safe minimum standard account sector implementation review
SMS SHYV SIRP selective management system special high-yielding variety Social·Infrastructure [forestry]
Rehabilitation Project SIA SMS social impact assessment SIS subject matter specialist
small-scale and informal sector SIBOR SMSE Singapore Interbank offered SITC small- and medium-scale rate Standard International Trade enterprise
Classification [UN] SID SMSI Social Indicators of SJF small- and medium--scale Development Special Joint Financing industry
SID SKD SMSI surveys, investigations and semi-knocked down small- and medium-scale designs irrigation
SL SIF support level SN social investment fund structural number
SLIC SIF Service Level Indicators for SNA Swap Insurance Facility Capital System of National Accounts
[UN] SIL SLL specific investment loan sustainable level of lending SNIF
short-term note issuance facility
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SNPP SPM SSA sustainable net national product suspended particulate matter Sub-Saharan Africa
SNPV SPPF SSAG social net present value South Pacific Project Facility Support Staff Action Group
SOAR SPPF SSASG System for Outline Account Special Project Preparation Support Staff Action Steering Reconciliation Facility Group
SOC SPR SSATP space occupancy costs Staff Project Report Sub-Saharan Africa Transport
Program SOD SPR sector operations division Supervisory Performance SSE
Review small-scale enterprise SODC sector operations division chief SPS SSI
Senior Policy Seminar [EDI] small-scale industry SOE special operational emphasis SPSS SSI
Statistical Package for the small-scale irrigation SOE Social Sciences [computer statement of expenditure statistical package] SSP
SOE SQL Science for Sustainability Program
state-owned enterprise structured query language SSP
SOF SRI social support program source of funds salary review increase
SS SOR SRN salt-and-sugar solutions Sahelian Operational Review State registered nurse
SST SOV SRP supersonic transport standard of value social recovery project
SSU SPA SRP secondary sample unit (World Bank's Program of) Special Program of Assistance (to Low-Income, Debt-
Staff Retirement Plan
SRPA SSWR social shadow wage rate
Distressed Countries in Sub- Supplemental Reorganization Saharan Africa) Pension Account SSZ
Sahelian and Sudanian zones SPAAR SRR Special Program for African social rate of return ST Agricultural Research short-term
SSA senior staff assistant
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STABEX SVP TAC System for the stabilization of Senior Vice President technical assistance credit ACP and ocr mining products
SW TAF STAC staff week Technical Assistance Trust Systems Technical Advisory Fund for the Union of Soviet Committee SWC Socialist Republics
soil and water conservation STAGs TAL sterling transferable accruing SWF technical assistance loan government securities social welfare function
TAMRA STAP SWIFT Technical and Miscellaneous Scientific and Technical Society for Worldwide Revenue Act [US] Advisory Panel Interbank Financial
Telecommunications TAN STB Tax Anticipation Note standard tank barrel [oil] SWP
Staff Working Paper TAO STB technical assistance officer stock tank barrel [oil] SWR
shadow wage rate TAP STD Temporary Assignment sexually transmitted disease SWWG Program
STD Status of Women Working Group [Staff Association] TAP
subscriber trunk dialing transboundary air pollution SY
STEM salary year TAPL Short Term Economic Monitor trade and agriculture policy
SY loan STO (The Developing Countries and
staff year TARS
the) Short-Term Oudook (for SYR Trade Analysis and Reporting the Global Economy) staff year System
STR SYSMIN TAS student/teacher ratio Special financing facility for Technical AdvisorY Services
ACP and ocr mining products [IFC] STRIPS Separate Trading of Registered T&V TBA Interest and Principal Securities training and visit to be announced
STT TA TBA Statistical Theme Team technical assistance traditional birth attendant
STW TAC TBR shallow tubewell Technical Advisory Committee Treasury Bill Rate
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TC TDS TL training capacity development Technical Data Sheet threshold level [EOI]
TDS TLC TCAL total debt service transferable loan certificates teracalorie
TDS TLF TCC total dissolved. solids transferable loan facilities technical cooperation credit
TEl TLI TCDC technical efficiency index transferable loan instruments technical cooperation among developing countries TEP TLU
tonnes of petroleum equivalent tropical livestock unit TCE ton of coal equivalent TEP TLV
trade expansion program threshold limit value TCF transportation conversion factor TEU TM
twenty equivalent units task manager TCF trillion cubic feet TF TMF
temperate forest tropical moist forest TCP Technical Cooperation Program TF TMIS
trust fund Travel Management TD Information System technical department, division TFAP
Tropical Forestry Action Plan TMP TD thermo-mechanical pulping total depth TFP
total factor productivity TMP TDF total material production tropical dry forest TFR
total fertility rate TMPC TDK Training Materials Policy temporary disk: [ITF charges] TFS Committee
total food supply TDND TMR total domestic debt of non- TFZ toddler mortality rate financial sectors tax free zone
TMSS TDR TIDE Telex Message Switch System tape drive use [ITF charges] Trends in Developing
Economies TMT TDR tape mounting [lTF charges] Special Programme for TIGR Research and Training in Treasury Investment Growth TMW Tropical Diseases Receipt Task Manager's Workstation
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TNA TPS TSP training needs analysis traditional production system triple superphosphate
TNC TPY TSR transnational corporation toos per year terminate and stay resident
TOC TR TSS total organic carbon travel request total suspended solids
TOE TRF TT ton of oil equivalent tropical rain forest terms of trade
TOR TRIMS TT terms of reference trade-related investment thematic team
measures TOT TTC terms of trade TRIPS technical training center
trade-related intellectual TOT property rights TUF training of trainers [EDI] tranche underwritten facility
TRL TOU tape storage [1TF charges] TV time-of-use traditional variety [plants]
TRN TOZ Token Ring Network TVE troy ounce township (town) and village
TRN enterprise TPAE total receipts net total public agricultural TWh expenditure TRP terawatt hours
Technical Review Panel TPAL TYP trade policy adjustment loan TRS Three-Year Plan
Time Recording System TPC USMR tax -paid cost TRS under-five mortality rate
total reduced sulfur TPER UA total priDllll)' energy TRUF unit of account requirements transferable revolving
underwriting facility UAE TPL United Arab Emirates trade policy loan TSCF
trillion standard cubic feet UCC TPM unit cost of capital Trigger Price Mechanism TSP
total suspended particulates UCS TPO urban credit societies trade promotion organization
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UDP UNPAI VDT user defined process U.N. Post Adjustment Indices video display terminal
UFR UPE VER use of Fund resources [IMF] universal primary education voluntary export restraints
UFS URR VEl' useful farm space ultimate recoverable reserves vocational education and
training UFW USDeq unaccounted-for water US dollar equivalent VEW
village extension worker UGPO USF user generated purchase order usable square feet VFM
value for money
ULM UST unlisted securities market United States Treasury VGD
vulnerable group development ULV USTN ultra low volume United States Treasury notes VGF
vulnerable group feeding UMDP USU urban management and ultimate sample unit VHW development project village health worker
UW UMIC United Way VIE upper middle income country voluntary import expansion
VA UMP value added VINES Urban Management Program Virtual Networking System [UNDPlWBfUNCHS] VAN [Banyan trade name]
value-added network UNCED VIP United Nations Conference on VAR ventilated improved pit Environment and Development value added reseller
VIS UNEDIL VAR Vacancy Information Service UNDPIEDIIILO Program to vector autoregression Strengthen African Training VLOM Institutions VAT village level operation and
value-added tax maintenance UNLP United Nations Laissez-Passer VCC VLR
venture capital company variable lending rate UNPAAERD United Nations Programme of VCF VLW Action for African Economie venture capital fund village level worker Recovery and Development, 1986-1990
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VO WASAT WEO voluntary organization West African Semi-Arid World Economic Outlook
Tropics [IMF] VOC vehicle operating cost WATR WGGP
weighted average tariff rate Working Group on Grievance VOC Procedures [Staff Association] volatile organic compound WB
Weekly Bulletin WGWC VOLAG Working Group on Women and voluntary agencies WB Credit
World Bank VPCE WI Vice President and Chief WBCC when issued Economist World Bank Children's Center
WIA VPD WBG women in agriCUlture vehicle per day World Bank Group
WIC VR WBGS women, infants and children variable rate World Bank Graduate
Scholarship Program WID VRA women in development voluntary restraint WBN arrangements World Bank News WIDPROJ
Women in Development VRFP WBSP Projects Database Visiting Research Fellows World Bank's steel price index Program WIM
WBSWP women in management VTC World Bank Staff Working vocational training center Paper WIN
works, infrastructure [aD VTE WBT procurement code] vocational and technical World Bank Tribunal education WINGS
WBVS warrant into government VTI World Bank Volunteer Service securities vocational training institute
WCEFA WKB WAN World Conference on Weekly Bulletin wide area network Education for All
WMA WASAL WDIs wildland management area water supply and sanitation World Development Indicators sector adjustment loan WMR
WnR works. maintenance and World Development Report rehabilitation [aD procurement
code]
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WOD works, buildings rOD procurement code]
WOP without project situation
WP with project situation
WPI wholesale price index
WPS Work Program System
WR work review
WRP world relative prices
WRT with respect to
WSS Water Supply and Sanitation
WT World Tables
WTP wiUinpess to pay
WUA water users' association
WUO water users' organization
X&M exports and imports
XGNFS export of aoods and non factor services
XGS export of aoods and services
XPD export performance benefit
XPR pages printed on XEROX [ITF charges]
YAR Yemen Arab Republic
Y income
YMR yearly merit review
YPP Young Professionals Program
YTD year to date
YTM yield to maturity
ZBB zero base budaetina
ZEBRAs zero coupon Eurosterlina bearer registered accruina securities
ZEO zone extension officer
ZPG zero population arowth
ZZM miscellaneous [00 procurement code]
Currency acronyms
Currency acronyms
The following is a list of the ISO three-letter acronyms used for currencies and increasingly seen in Bank and other documents. It is based on ISO International Standard 4217. An alphabetical list by country can be found in the Communications and Style Guide, statement 4.25 in English and in International Codes for Names of Countries and Currencies (ISO).
50 Currency acronyms
AED BGL CRC FJD United Arab Bulgaria - lev Costa Rica - colon Fiji - dollar Emirates - dirham
BOO CSK FRF AFA Bahrain - dinar Czechoslovakia France - franc Afghanistan - afghani
BIF koruna
FRF ALL Bunmdi - franc CUP Monaco - franc Albania - lete
BMD Cuba - peso
GBP ANG Bermuda - dollar CVE United Kingdom Netherlands Antilles Cape Verde - escudo pound - guilder BND
Brunei - dollar CYP GHC AOK Cyprus - pound Ghana - cedi Angola - kwanza BOB
Bolivia - boliviano DEM GMD ARA Germany - deutsche Gambia, The - dalasi Argentina - austral BRE
Brazil - cruzeiro mark
GNF ATS DJF Guinea - franc Austria - schilling BSD
Bahamas, The Djibouti - franc
GRD AUD dollar DKK Greece - drachma Australia - dollar Denmark - krone
BTN GTQ AUD Bhutan - ngultrum DOP Guatemala - quetzal Kiribati - dollar Dominican Republic
BWP - peso GWP AUD Botswana - pula Guinea-Bissau - peso Nauru - dollar DZD
BZD Algeria - dinar GYD AUD Belize - dollar Guyana - dollar Tuvalu - dollar ECS
CAD Ecuador - sucre HKD BBD Canada - dollar Hong Kong - dollar Barbados - dollar EGP
CHF Egypt, Arab IINL BDT Switzerland - franc Republic of - pound Honduras - lempira Bangladesh - taka
CLP ESB HTG BEC Chile - peso Spain - peseta Haiti - gourde Belgium - franc
CNY ESP HUF BEF China, People's Spain - peseta Hungary - forint Belgium - franc Republic of - yuan
ETB IDR BEL COP Ethiopia - birr Indonesia - rupiah Belgium - franc Colombia - peso
FIM IEP Finland - markka Ireland - pound
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ILS KYD MWK PLZ Israel - shekel Cayman Islands Malawi - kwacha Poland - zloty
dollar INR MXP PrE India-rupee LAK Mexico - peso Azores - escudo
Lao People's IQD Democratic Republic MYR PrE Iraq - dinar - kip Malaysia - rinagit Portugal - escudo
IRR LDP MZM PYG Iran, Islamic Lebanon - pound Mozambique Paraguay - guarani Republic of rial metical
LO QAR ISK Sri Lanka - rupee NGN Qatar - riyal Iceland - kr6na Nigeria - naira
LRD ROL ITL Liberia - dollar NlO Romania - leu Italy-Ura
LSL Nicaragua - cOrdoba
RWF JMD Lesotho - loti NLG Rwanda - franc Jamaica - dollar Netherlands - BUilder
LUF SAR 10D Luxemboura - franc NOK Saudi Arabia - riyal Jordan - dinar
LYD Norway - krone
SDD JPY Libya - dinar NPR Solomon Islands Japan - yen Nepal- rupee dollar
MAD KES Morocco - dirham NZD SCR Kenya - shillina
MGF New Zealand - dollar Seycbelles - rupee
KHR Madaaascar - franc OMR SDP Kampuchea, Oman - rial Omani Sudan - pound Democratic - riel MMK
Myanmar - kyat PAD SEK KMF Panama - balboa Sweden - krona Comoros - franc MNT
Mon,olia - lopik PEl SGn KPW Peru - inti Sinaapore - dollar Korea, Democratic MRO People's Republic of Mauritania - ouauiya PGK SLL -won Papua New Guinea Sierra Leone - leone
MTL kina OW Malta -lira SOS Korea, Republic of PHP Somalia - shilling won MUR
Mauritius - rupee Philippines - peso
SRG KWD PO Suriname - amlder Kuwait - dinar MVR Pakistan - rupee
Maldives - rufiyaa
52 Currency acronyms
STD VND XCD Zambia - kwacha Sao Tome and Viet Nam - dong St. Vincent - dollar Principe - dobra ZRZ
VUV XOF Zaire - zaire SVC Vanuatu - vatu Benin - franc EI Salvador - colon ZWD
WST XOF Zimbabwe - dollar SVP Western Samoa - tala Burkina Faso - franc Syrian Arab Republic - pound XAF XOF
Cameroon - franc COte d'Ivoire franc SZL Swaziland - lilangeni XAF XOF
Central African Mali - franc THB Republic - franc Thailand - baht XOF
XAF Niger - franc TND Chad - franc Tunisia - dinar XOF
XAF Senegal - franc TOP Congo, People's Tonga - pa'anga Republic of the XOF
franc Togo - franc TRL Turkey - lira XAF YDD
Equatorial Guinea Yemen, Republic of TTD franc dinar Trinidad and Tobago - dollar XAF YER
Gabon - franc Yemen, Republic of -TZS rial Tanzania - shilling XCD
Antiaua and Barbuda YON UGX - dollar Yugoslavia - dinar Uganda - shilling
XCD ZAL USD Dominica - dollar Lesotho - loti Micronesia, Federated States of XCD ZAL dollar Grenada - dollar South Africa - rand
USD XCD ZAR United States of Montserrat - dollar Lesotho - loti America - dollar
XCD ZAR UYP St. Kitts and Nevis Namibia - rand Uruauay - new peso dollar
ZAR VEB XCD South Africa - rand Venezuela - bolivar St. Lucia - dollar
ZMK
Country acronyms
Country acronyms
The following is a list of acronyms used for country names. Unfortunately, there is no standard system used in the Bank. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has produced an International Standard No. 3166 which uses a 2-Ietter and 3-letter code. You will find these listed below as IS02 and IS03. The Bank seems to roughly follow IS03 but is by no means consistent; moreover, there are at least four systems used in the Bank which, while substantially similar, are not identical. These are the system used on loan documents (identified as WB below), the system used by the Budget and Accounting System (BAS), the system used by Controller's (CTR) and the system used by Language Services Division (LSD). Finally, the United Nations has its own system which is shared by FAO (and probably other organizations) (UNIFAO). It's your guess which system is being used in any given document! Note that many systems do not have entries for all countries (partially because they are not concerned with those countries). ISO has entries for geographical areas that are not independent countries. Note also that these systems have not yet adopted acronyms for many new countries, particularly the countries of the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. This listing is purely alphabetical order by acronym.
56 Country name acronyms
ADD (BAS) ALB (BAS) AR (erR) AUA (LSD) Abu Dhabi Albania Argentina Austria
AD (IS02) ALB (IS03) AR (IS02) AUA (WB) Andorra Albania Argentina Austria
ADR (BAS) ALB (UN/FAO) AR(LSD) A'lL (BAS) Andorra Albania Argentina Australia
AE (IS02) ALG(BAS) AR (WB) AUS (IS03) United Arab Algeria Argentina Australia Emirates
ALG (UN/FAO) ARE (IS03) AUT (IS03) AF (CTR) Algeria United Arab Austria Afghanistan Emirates
AN (CTR) BA (erR) AF (IS02) Netherlands Antilles ARG (BAS) Myanmar Afghanistan Argentina
AN (IS02) BAH (BAS) AF (LSD) Netherlands Antilles ARG (IS03) Bahamas, The Afghanistan Argentina
AND (IS03) BAH (UNIFAO) AF (WB) Andorra ARG (UNIFAO) Bahrain Afghanistan Argentina
AND (LSD) BAN (BAS) AFG (BAS) Andorra ARU (BAS) Bangladesh Afghanistan Aruba
ANG (BAS) BAR (BAS) AFG (IS03) Angola ARU (UN/FAO) Barbados Afghanistan Aruba
ANG (LSD) BAR (CTR) AFG (UNIFAO) Angola ARU(WB) Barbados Afghanistan Aruba
ANG (UN/FAO) BAR (LSD) AG (IS02) Angola AT (IS02) Barbados Antigua Austria
ANG (WB) BAR (UN/FAO) AGO (IS03) Angola ATG (IS03) Barbados, Anguilla Angola Antigua
ANT (BAS) BAR (WB) AL (erR) Antigua ATN (IS03) Barbados Algeria Dronning Maud Land
ANT (IS03) BB (IS02) AL (IS02) Netherlands Antilles AU (IS02) Barbados Albania Australia
ANT (UNIFAO) B» (erR) AL (LSD) Antigua AU (LSD) Bangladesh Algeria Australia
AO (IS02) BD (IS02) AL (WB) Angola AU (WB) Bangladesh Algeria Australia
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BD (LSD) BER (BAS) BHU (UNIFAO) BOL (LSD) Bangladesh Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia
BD (WB) BER (UN/FAO) BHU (WB) BOL (UN/FAO) Bangladesh Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia
BDG (IS03) BEZ (BAS) BI (lS02) BOT (BAS) Bangladesh Belize Burundi Botswana
BDI (lS03) BG (lS02) BJ (lS02) BOT (UNIFAO) Burundi Bulgaria Benin Botswana
BDI (UNIFAO) BGD (UN/FAO) BKF (UNIF AO) BR (erR) Burundi Bangl~ Burkina Faso Brazil
BE (IS02) BGR (IS03) BLZ (IS03) BR (IS02) Belgium Bulgaria Belize Brazil
BE (WB) BR (CTR) BM(erR) BR (LSD) Belgium Bahrain Bahamas, The Brazil
BEL (BAS) BR (IS02) BM (IS02) BR (WB) Belgium Bahrain Bermuda Brazil
BEL (erR) BR (LSD) BM (LSD) BRA (BAS) Belize Bahrain Bahamas, The Brazil
BEL (IS03) BR(WB) BM(WB) BRA (lS03) Belgium Bahrain Bahamas, The Brazil
BEL (LSD) BRA (UN/FAO) BMU (lS03) BRA (UN/FAO) Belize Bahamas, The Bermuda Brazil
BEL (WB) BHR (BAS) BN (lS02) BRB (lS03) Belize Bahrain Brunei Barbados
BEN (erR) BHR. (lS03) BO (CTR) BRN (lS03) Benin Bahrain Bolivia Brunei
BEN (lS03) BRS (IS03) BO (IS02) BRU (BAS) Benin Bahamas, The Bolivia Brunei
BEN (LSD) BHU (BAS) BO (WB) BRU (UNIFAO) Benin Bhutan Bolivia Brunei
BEN (UN/F AO) BHU (erR) BOL (BAS) BS (1502) Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bahamas, The
BEN(WB) BHU (LSD) BOL (IS03) BT (CTR) Benin Bhutan Bolivia Botswana
58 Country name acronyms
BT (lS02) BVI (UNIFAO) CAN (LSD) CG (lS02) Bhutan British Virgin Islands Canada Congo, People's
Republic of the BT (LSD) BVT (lS03) CAP (BAS) Botswana Bouvet Island Cape Verde CH (CTR)
Chile BT (WB) BW (lS02) CAR (BAS) Botswana Botswana Central African CH (lS02)
Republic Switzerland BTN (lS03) BWA (lS03) Bhutan Botswana CAR (WB) CH (LSD)
Central African Chile BU (CTR) BY (lS02) Republic Burundi Byelorussian SSR CH (WB)
CAY (BAS) Chile BU(WB) BYS (lS03) Cayman Islands Burundi Byelorussian SSR CRA (BAS)
CAY (LSD) China, People's BUA (BAS) BZ (IS02) Cayman Islands Republic of Myanmar Belize
CAY (UNIFAO) CRA (CTR) BUI (BAS) BZE (UNIFAO) Cayman Islands China, People's Burundi Belize Republic of
CC (lS02) BUI.. (BAS) CA (CTR) Cocos (Keeling) CRA (LSD) Bulgaria Central African Islands China, People's
Republic Republic of BUI..(CTR) CCK (lS03) Bulgaria CA (lS02) Cocos (Keeling) CHA (WB)
Canada Islands China, People's BUI.. (LSD) Republic of Bulgaria CAE (LSD) CD (CTR)
Central African Chad CHD (BAS) BUL (UNIFAO) Republic Chad Bulgaria CD (LSD)
CAF (lS03) Chad CHD (UNIFAO) BUR (BAS) Central African Chad Burkina Faso Republic CD (WB)
Chad CHE (lS03) BUR(CTR) CAF (UNIFAO) Switzerland Burkina Faso Central African CE (CTR)
Republic Sri Lanka (Formerly cm (UNIFAO) BUR (LSD) Ceylon) Chile Burundi CAM (BAS)
Cameroon CE (WB) cm. (BAS) BUR (WB) Sri Lanka (Formerly Chile Burkina Faso CAN (BAS) Ceylon)
Canada em. (lS03) BV (lS02) CF (lS02) Chile Bouvet Island CAN (lS03) Central African
Canada Republic
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CHN (BAS) CO (LSD) COM(WB) CTE (lS03) Taiwan Colombia Comoros Canton and
Enderbury Islands CHN (lS03) CO (WB) COO (BAS) China, People's Colombia Cook Islands CV (IS02) Republic of Cuba
COB (BAS) COS (BAS) CIS (BAS) Congo, People's Costa Rica CUB (BAS) Channel Islands Republic of the Cuba
COS (UN/FAO) CK (lS02) COB (CTR) Costa Rica CUB (lS03) Cook Islands Congo, People's Cuba
Republic of the CPR (UN/FAO) CKI (UNIFAO) -- China, People's CUB (UNIFAO) Cook Islands COB (LSD) Republic of Cuba
Congo, People's CL (lS02) Republic of the CPV (lS03) CV (CTR) Chile Cape Verde Cape Verde
COB(WB) CLM (BAS) Congo, People's CR (CTR) CV (lS02) Colombia Republic of the Costa Rica Cape Verde
CM (CTR) COG (lS03) CR (lS02) CV (LSD) Cameroon Congo, People's Costa Rica Cape Verde
Republic of the CM (lS02) CR (LSD) CV (WB) Cameroon COl (UN/FAO) Costa Rica Cape Verde
Comoros CM (LSD) CR(WB) CVI (UNIF AO) Cameroon COK (IS03) Costa Rica Cape Verde
Cook Islands CM (WB) CRB(WB) CX (lS02) Cameroon COL (lS03) Antigua, Barbuda, Christmas Island
Colombia St. Kitts and Nevis CMR (IS03) CXR (IS03) Cameroon COL (UNIFAO) CRG (WB) Christmas Island
Colombia Antigua, Barbuda, CMR (UNIFAO) St. Kitts and Nevis CV (CTR) Cameroon COM (BAS) Cyprus
Comoros CRI (lS03) CN (IS02) Costa Rica CV (lS02) China, People's COM (CTR) Cyprus Republic of Comoros CS (lS02)
Czechoslovakia CV (LSD) CO (CTR) COM (lS03) Cyprus Colombia Comoros CSK (lS03)
Czechoslovakia CV (WB) CO (IS02) COM (LSD) Cyprus Colombia Comoros CT (IS02)
Canton and CYM (lS03) Enderbury Islands Cayman Islands
60 Country name acronyms
CYP (BAS) DK (lS02) Cyprus Denmark
CYP (lS03) DM (lS02) Cyprus Dominica
CYP (UNIFAO) DMA (IS03) Cyprus Dominica
CZ (WB) DMC (BAS) Czechoslovakia Dominica
CZE (UNIF AO) DMI (UNIFAO) Czechoslovakia Dominica
CZK (BAS) DNK (IS03) Czechoslovakia Denmark
DE (LSD) DO (IS02) Denmark Dominican Republic
DE (WB) DO (LSD) Denmark Dominican Republic
DEN (BAS) DO (WB) Denmark Dominican Republic
DEN (UNIFAO) DOM (BAS) Denmark Dominican Republic
DJ (lS02) DOM(CTR) Djibouti Dominica
DJI (BAS) DOM (1503) Djibouti Dominican Republic
DJI (CTR) DOM (LSD) Djibouti Dominica
DJI (1503) DOM (UN/FAO) Djibouti Dominican Republic
DJI (LSD) DOM(WB) Djibouti Dominica
DJI (UNIFAO) DRK (UN/FAO) Djibouti Korea, Democratic
People's Republic of DJI(WB) Djibouti DZ (lS02)
Algeria
DZA (lS03) Algeria
EC (CTR) Ecuador
EC (IS02) Ecuador
EGT (WB) Egypt, Arab Republic of
EGY (lS03) Egypt, Arab Republic of
EC (LSD) Ecuador
EGY (UN/FAO) Egypt, Arab Republic of
EC (WB) Ecuador
Ell (lS02) Western Sahara
ECU (BAS) Ecuador
ELS (UNIFAO) EI Salvador
ECU (lS03) Ecuador
EQG (BAS) Equatorial Guinea
ECU (UNIFAO) Ecuador
EQG (UNIFAO) Equatorial Guinea
EG(CTR) Equatorial Guinea
ES (CTR) EI Salvador
EG (IS02) Egypt, Arab Republic of
EG (LSD) Equatorial Guinea
EG(WB) Equatorial Guinea
EGT (BAS) Egypt, Arab Republic of
ES (lS02) Spain
ES (LSD) EI Salvador
ES (WB) EI Salvador
ESH (1503) Western Sahara
ESL (BAS) EI Salvador
EGT (CTR) Egypt, Arab Republic of
ESP (1503) Spain
EGT (LSD) Egypt, Arab Republic of
ET (CTR) Ethiopia
ET (lS02) Ethiopia
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ET (WB) FJ (IS02) GAM (BAS) GLP (1S03) Ethiopia Fiji Gambia, The Guadeloupe
ETA (LSD) FJI (1S03) GAM (UNIFAO) GM (CTR) Ethiopia Fiji Gambia. The Gambia, The
ETH(BAS) FLK (BAS) GB (1S02) GM (1S02) Ethiopia Falkland Islands United Kingdom Gambia. The
(Malvinas) ETH ([S03) GBR (1S03) GM (LSD) Ethiopia FPL (UNIFAO) United Kingdom Gambia. The
French Polynesia ETH (UNIFAO) GBS (UNIFAO) GM (WB) Ethiopia FR (1S02) Guinea-Bissau Gambia, The
France ETM (BAS) GD ([S02) GMB (1S03) East Timor FR (LSD) Grenada Gambia, The
France FAE (BAS) GDL (BAS) GN (1S02) Faeroe Island FRA (BAS) Guadeloupe Guinea
France FI (1S02) GF (1S02) GNB (IS03) Finland FRA (1S03) French Guiana Guinea-Bissau
France FI (LSD) GH (CTR) GND (BAS) Finland FRG (BAS) Ghana Greenland
French Guiana FI (WB) GH (1S02) GNQ (IS03) Finland FRP (BAS) Ghana Equatorial Guinea
French Polynesia FIJ (BAS) GH (LSD) GP (1S02) Fiji GA (CTR) Ghana Guadeloupe
Gabon FIJ (CTR) GH (WB) GQ (1S02) Fiji GA (IS02) Ghana Equatorial Guinea
Gabon FIJ (LSD) GHA (BAS) GR (1S02) Fiji GA (LSD) Ghana Greece
Gabon FIJ (UNIF AO) GHA (1S03) GR (LSD) Fiji GA (WB) Ghana Greece
Gabon FIJ (WB) GHA (UNIFAO) GRC (IS03) Fiji GAB (BAS) Ghana Greece
Gabon FIN (BAS) GIN ([S03) GRD (BAS) Finland GAB (1S03) Guinea Grenada
Gabon FIN (IS03) GL (1S02) GRD (CTR) Finland GAB (UNIFAO) Greenland Greenland
Gabon
62 Country name ecronyms
GRD (1503) GUA (WB) GY (1502) HO (LSD) Grenada Guyana Guyana Honduras
GRD (LSD) GUB (BAS) HA (CTR) HO (WB) Grenada Guinea-Bissau Haiti Honduras
GRD (WB) GUB (CTR) HA (LSD) HOK (UNIF AO) Grenada Guinea-Bissau Haiti Hong Kong
GRE (BAS) GUB (LSD) HA (WB) HON (UNIF AO) Greece Guinea-Bissau Haiti Honduras
GRE (UNIFAO) GUB(WB) HAl (BAS) BT (1502) Greece Guinea-Bissau Haiti Haiti
GRL (1503) GUF (lS03) HAl (UN/FAO) BTl (lS03) Greenland French Guiana Haiti Haiti
GRN (UNIFAO) GUI (BAS) lIDS (BAS) HU (CTR) Grenada Guinea Honduras Hungary
GT (lS02) GUI (CTR) HK (IS02) HU (lS02) Guatemala Guinea Hon,Kona Hun,ary
GTM (lS03) GUI (LSD) HK (LSD) HU (LSD) Guatemala Guinea Hong Kong Hungary
GU (CTR) GUI (UN/FAO) HKG (BAS) HU (WB) Guatemala Guinea Hong Kong Hungary
GU (lS02) GUI (WB) HKG (lS03) HUN (BAS) Guam Guinea Hong Kong Hungary
GU (LSD) GUM (BAS) 11M (IS02) HUN (lS03) Guatemala Guam Heard and McDonald Hungary
Islands GU (WB) GUM (lS03) HUN (UNIF AO) Guatemala Guam HMD (lS03) Hungary
Heard and McDonald GUA (BAS) GUY (BAS) Islands IC (LSD) Guatemala Guyana Iceland
lIN (lS02) GUA (CTR) GUY (IS03) Honduras ICE (BAS) Guyana Guyana Iceland
lIND (lS03) GUA (LSD) GUY (UN/FAO) Honduras 10 (lS02) Guyana Guyana Indonesia
HO (CTR) GUA (UNIFAO) GW (lS02) Honduras ION (lS03) Guatemala Guinea-Bissau Indonesia
Country name acronyms 63
IE (1502) IQ (1502) IRR (BAS) JAM (UNIFAO) Iran, Islamic Iraq Ireland Jamaica Republic of
IR (1502) IS (1502) JAP (BAS) n.. (1502) Ireland Iceland Japan Israel
IRA (UNIFAO) IS (LSD) 1M (CTR) IN (eTR) Iran, Islamic Israel Jamaica India Republic of
ISL (lS03) 1M (lS02) IN (1502) IRE (LSD) Iceland Jamaica India Ireland
ISM (BAS) 1M (LSD) IN (LSD) IRL (1503) Isle of Man Jamaica India Ireland
ISR (BAS) JO (CTR) IN (WB) IRN (BAS) Israel Jordan India Iran, Islamic
Republic of ISR (lS03) JO (lS02) IND (BAS) Israel Jordan India IRN (CTR)
Iran, Islamic IT (IS02) JO (LSD) IND (CTR) Republic of Italy Jordan Indonesia
IRN (1503) IT (LSD) JO (WB) IND (1503) Iran, Islamic Italy Jordan India Republic of
ITA (BAS) JOR (BAS) IND (LSD) IRN (LSD) Italy Jordan Indonesia Iran, Islamic
Republic of ITA (lS03) JOR (lS03) IND (UNIFAO) Italy Jordan India IRN (WB)
Iran, Islamic IVe (CTR) JOR (UN/FAO) IND (WB) Republic of COte d'lvoire Jordan Indonesia
IRQ (BAS) IVe (UNIFAO) JP (lS02) INS (BAS) Iraq COte d'Ivoire Japan Indonesia
IRQ (CTR) IVe (WB) JPN (1503) INS (UNIFAO) Iraq COte d'lvoire Japan Indonesia
IRQ (lS03) JA (LSD) JPN (UN/FAO) 10 (lS02) Iraq Japan Japan British Indian Ocean Territory IRQ (LSD) JAM (BAS) JT (lS02)
Iraq Jamaica Johnston Island lOT (lS03) British Indian Ocean IRQ (UNIFAO) JAM (IS03) ]TN (lS03) Territory Iraq Jamaica Johnston Island
64 Country name acronyms
KAM (BAS) KI (IS02) KU (LSD) LBR (CTR) Kampuchea, People's Kiribati Kuwait Liberia Republic of
KI (LSD) KUW (BAS) LBR (lS03) KAM (UNIFAO) Kiribati Kuwait Liberia Kampuchea, People's Republic of KIR (BAS) KUW (UN/FAO) LBR (LSD)
Kiribati Kuwait Liberia KDP(BAS) Korea, Democratic KIR (IS03) KW (IS02) LBR(WB) People's Republic of Kiribati Kuwait Liberia
KE (CTR) KIR (UN/FAO) KWT (lS03) LBY (CTR) Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Libya
KE (lS02) KIR (WB) KY (lS02) LBY (lS03) Kenya Kiribati Cayman Islands Libya
KE (LSD) KM (lS02) LA (CTR) LBY (LSD) Kenya Comoros Lao People's Libya
Democratic Republic KE (WB) KN (IS02) LC (lS02) Kenya St. Kitts and Nevis LA (IS02) st. Lucia
Lao People's KEN (BAS) KNA (IS03) Democratic Republic LCA (lS03) Kenya St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia
LA (LSD) KEN (IS03) KO (CTR) Lao People's LCH (LSD) Kenya Korea, Republic of Democratic Republic Liechtenstein
KEN (UNIFAO) KO (LSD) LAO (BAS) LE (CTR) Kenya Korea, Republic of Lao People's Lebanon
Democratic Republic KII (CTR) KO (WB) LE (LSD) Kampuchea. People's Korea, Republic of LAO (IS03) Lebanon RepUblic of Lao People's
KOR (BAS) Democratic Republic LE (WB) KH (lS02) Korea, Republic of Lebanon Kampuchea, People's LAO (UNIF AO) Republic of KOR (IS03) Lao People's LEB (BAS)
Korea, Republic of Democratic Republic Lebanon KII (LSD) Kampuchea, People's KP (IS02) LAO (WB) LEB (UN/FAO) Republic of Korea, Democratic Lao People's Lebanon
People's RepUblic of Democratic Republic KHM (IS03) LES (BAS) Kampuchea, People's KR (IS02) LB (IS02) Lesotho Republic of Korea, Republic of Lebanon
LES (UN/FAO) KI (CTR) KU (CTR) LBN (lS03) Lesotho Kiribati Kuwait Lebanon
Country name acronyms 65
LI (lS02) LUX (BAS) MAl (WB) MAU (UNIFAO) Liechtenstein Luxembourg Malawi Mauritania
Lm (BAS) LUX (IS03) MAL (BAS) MAU (WB) liberia Luxembourg Malawi Mauritania
Lm(UN/FAO) LY (IS02) MAL (CTR) MAY (BAS) libya libya Maldives Malaysia
LIE (lS03) MA (CTR) MAL (LSD) MC (lS02) liechtenstein Malaysia Maldives Monaco
LIR (UNIFAO) MA (IS02) MAL (UNIFAO) MCO (IS03) liberia Morocco Malaysia Monaco
LIY (BAS) MA (LSD) MAL(WB) MDG (lS03) libya Malaysia Maldives Madagascar
LK (IS02) MA (WB) MAR (BAS) MDV (IS03) Sri Lanka (Formerly Malaysia Mariana Islands Maldives Ceylon)
MAC (BAS) MAR (IS03) MDV (UNIFAO) LKA (lS03) Macao Morocco Maldives Sri Lanka (Formerly Ceylon) MAC (IS03) MAR (UNIFAO) ME (CTR)
Macao Mauritius Mexico LR (IS02) Liberia MAG (BAS) MAS (CTR) ME (LSD)
Madagascar Mauritius Mexico LS (IS02) Lesotho MAG (CTR) MAS (LSD) ME (WB)
Madagascar Mauritius Mexico LSO (CTR) Lesotho MAG (LSD) MAS (WB) MEK(BAS)
Madagascar Mauritius Mekong LSO (IS03) Lesotho MAG (UNIFAO) MAT (CTR) MEX (IS03)
Madagascar Malta Mexico LSO (LSD) Lesotho MAG(WB) MAT (LSD) MEX (UNIFAO)
Madagascar Malta Mexico LSO (WB) Lesotho MAl (BAS) MAT (UN/FAO) MG (IS02)
Marshall Island Malta Madagascar LU (lS02) Luxembourg MAl (CTR) MAU (CTR) MI (lS02)
Malawi Mauritania Midway Islands LU (LSD) Luxembourg MAl (LSD) MAU (LSD) MlC (BAS)
Malawi Mauritania Micronesia, Federal States of
66 Country name acronyms
MID (1803) MO (LSD) MR (1802) MYA (UN/FAO) Midway Islands Montserrat Mauritania Myanmar
ML (lS02) MOG(CTR) MRT (BAS) MYC (BAS) Mali Mongolia Martinique Morocco
MLD (BAS) MON (LSD) MRT (lS03) MYS (lS03) Maldives Mongolia Mauritania Malaysia
MLI (BAS) MON (UNIFAO) MS (lS02) MZ (lS02) Mali Mongolia Montserrat Mozambique
MLI (CTR) MOR (CTR) MSR (lS03) NA (CTR) Mali Morocco Montserrat Namibia
MLI (lS03) MOR (LSD) MT (lS02) NA (IS02) Mali Morocco Malta Namibia
MLI (LSD) MOR (UNIFAO) MTA(BAS) NA (WB) Mali Morocco Mauritania Netherlands Antilles
MLI (UNIFAO) MOR (WB) MTQ (IS03) NAM (BAS) Mali Morocco Martinique Namibia
MLI (WB) MOT (BAS) MTS (BAS) NAM (lS03) Mali Montserrat Mauritius Namibia
MLT (BAS) MOT (UN/FAO) MU (IS02) NAM (UNIFAO) Malta Montserrat Mauritius Namibia
MLT (lS03) MOZ (BAS) MUS (lS03) NAN (BAS) Malta Mozambique Mauritius Netherlands Antilles
MLW (UNIFAO) MOZ (CTR) MV (lS02) NAN (UNIFAO) Malawi Mozambique Maldives Netherlands Antilles
MN (lS02) MOZ (IS03) MW (lS02) NC (IS02) Mongolia Mozambique Malawi New Caledonia
MNC (LSD) MOZ (LSD) MWI (lS03) NCA (UNIFAO) Monaco Mozambique Malawi New Caledonia
MNG (BAS) MOZ (UNIFAO) MX (lS02) NCD (BAS) Mongolia Mozambique Mexico New Caledonia
MNG (lS03) MOZ (WB) MXC (BAS) NCL (lS03) Mongolia Mozambique Mexico New Caledonia
MO (lS02) MQ (IS02) MY (lS02) NE (IS02) Macao Martinique Malaysia Niger
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NE (LSD) NI (WB) NOR (lS03) PA (lS02) Netherlands Nicaragua Norway Panama
NEP(BAS) NIC (BAS) NP (IS02) PA (LSD) Nepal Nicaragua Nepal Paraguay
NEP (CTR) NIC (lS03) NPL (lS03) PA (WB) Nepal Nicaragua Nepal Paraguay
NEP(LSD) NIC (UNIFAO) NQ (lS02) PAK (BAS) Nepal Nicaragua Dronning Maud Land Pakistan
NEP (UNIFAO) NIG (BAS) NT (lS02) PAK (CTR) Nepal Niger Neutral Zone Pakistan
NEP(WB) NIR (BAS) NTZ (IS03) PAK (lS03) Nepal Nigeria Neutral Zone Pakistan
NER (lS03) NIR (CTR) NU (IS02) PAK (LSD) Niger Niger Niue Pakistan
NER (UNIFAO) NIR (LSD) NZ (lS02) PAK (UNIFAO) Niger Niger New Zealand Pakistan
NET (BAS) NIR (UN/FAO) NZ (LSD) PAK (WB) Netherlands Nigeria New Zealand Pakistan
NEZ (BAS) NIR (WB) NZL (lS03) PAL (BAS) New Zealand Niaer New Zealand Palau
NF (lS02) NIU (lS03) OM (CTR) PAN (BAS) Norfolk Island Niue Oman Panama
NFK (lS03) NIU (UNIFAO) OM (lS02) PAN (CTR) Norfolk Island Niue Oman Panama
NG (lS02) NL (IS02) OM (LSD) PAN (lS03) Niaeria Netherlands Oman Panama
NGA (lS03) NLD (lS03) OMA (BAS) PAN (LSD) Nigeria Netherlands Oman Panama
NI (CTR) NO (lS02) OMA (UNIFAO) PAN (UNIFAO) Nicaragua Norway Oman Panama
NI (lS02) NO (LSD) OMN (lS03) PAN (WB) Nicaraaua Norway Oman Panama
NI (LSD) NOR (BAS) PA (CTR) PAP (BAS) Nicaragua Norway Paraguay Papua New Guinea
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PAR (BAS) PIlL (BAS) POL (CTR) QA (CTR) Paraguay Philippines Poland Qatar
PAR (UN/FAO) PIlL (IS03) POL (lS03) QA (lS02) Paraguay Philippines Poland Qatar
PCN (IS03) PK (lS02) POL (UN/FAO) QA (LSD) Pitcairn Island Pakistan Poland Qatar
PE (CTR) PL (lS02) POR (BAS) QA (WB) Peru Poland Portugal Qatar
PE (IS02) PL (LSD) POR (UN/FAO) QAT (lS03) Peru Poland Portugal Qatar
PE (LSD) PL (WB) PR (lS02) QAT (UN/FAO) Peru Poland Puerto Rico Qatar
PE (WB) PM (lS02) PR (LSD) QTR (BAS) Peru St. Pierre and Puerto Rico Qatar
Miquelon PER (BAS) PRe (UNIFAO) RE (IS02) Peru PN (IS02) Congo. People's Reunion
Pitcairn Island Republic of the PER (IS03) REU (BAS) Peru PNG (CTR) PRI (IS03) Reunion
Papua New Guinea Puerto Rico PER (UN/F AO) REU (IS03) Peru PNG (IS03) PRK (IS03) Reunion
Papua New Guinea Korea, Democratic PF (IS02) People's Republic of RHO (BAS) French Polynesia PNG (LSD) Rhodesia
Papua New Guinea PRT (IS03) PG (IS02) Portugal RO (CTR) Papua New Guinea PNG (UN/FAO) Romania
Papua New Guinea PRY (IS03) PH (CTR) Paraguay RO (lS02) Philippines PNG (WB) Romania
Papua New Guinea PT (lS02) PH (IS02) Portugal RO (LSD) Philippines PO (CTR) Romania
Portugal PUE (BAS) PH (LSD) Puerto Rico RO (WB) Philippines PO (LSD) Romania
Portugal PY (lS02) PH (WB) Paraguay ROK (UN/FAO) Philippines PO (WB) Korea, Republic of
Portugal PYF (IS03) Pm (UNIFAO) French Polynesia ROM (BAS) Philippines POL (BAS) Romania
Poland
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ROM (lS03) SAU (UNIFAO) SG (lS02) SLB (lS03) Romania Saudi Arabia Singapore Solomon Islands
ROM (UNIFAO) SAU (WB) SGP (lS03) SLE (lS03) Romania Saudi Arabia Singapore Sierra Leone
ROY (WB) SB (lS02) SH (lS02) SLI (BAS) Yemen, Republic of Solomon Islands St. Helena Solomon Islands
RW (Cl'R) SC (CTR) SHN (lS03) SLU (Cl'R) Rwanda St. Kitts and Nevis St. Helena St. Lucia
RW (IS02) SC (lS02) SI (LSD) SLU (LSD) Rwanda Seychelles Singapore St. Lucia
RW (LSD) SE (Cl'R) SI (WB) SLU (WB) Rwanda Senegal Singapore St. Lucia
RW(WB) SE (IS02) SIL (BAS) SLV (lS03) Rwanda Sweden Sierra Leone EI Salvador
RWA (BAS) SE (LSD) SIL (UN/FAO) SM (IS02) Rwanda Senegal Sierra Leone San Marino
RWA (lS03) SE (WB) SIN (UNIFAO) SMR (IS03) Rwanda Senegal Singapore San Marino
RWA (UNIF AO) SEN (BAS) SJ (IS02) SN (lS02) Rwanda Senegal Svalbard and Ian Senegal
Mayen Islands SA (IS02) SEN (lS03) SNG (BAS) Saudi Arabia Senegal SJM (lS03) Singapore
Svalbard and Ian SA (LSD) SEN (UNIFAO) Mayen Islands SO (Cl'R) South Africa Senegal Somalia
SKM (BAS) SAM (UNIFAO) SEY (BAS) Sikkim SO (IS02) Samoa Seychelles Somalia
SL (CTR) SAR (BAS) SEY (CTR) Sierra Leone SO (LSD) Saudi Arabia Seychelles Somalia
SL (lS02) SAU (Cl'R) SEY (LSD) Sierra Leone SO (WB) Saudi Arabia Seychelles Somalia
SL (LSD) SAU (IS03) SEY (UNIFAO) Sierra Leone SOl (UNIFAO) Saudi Arabia Seychelles Solomon Islands
SL (WB) SAU (LSD) SEY (WB) Sierra Leone SOL (Cl'R) Saudi Arabia Seychelles Solomon Islands
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SOL (LSD) STK (BAS) SU (CTR) SWE (lS03) Solomon Islands St. Kitts and Nevis Sudan Sweden
SOL (WB) STK (UNIFAO) SU (lS02) SWE (LSD) Solomon Islands St. Kitts and Nevis USSR Sweden
SOM (BAS) STL (BAS) SU (WB) SWI (BAS) Somalia St. Lucia Sudan Switzerland
SOM (lS03) STL (UNIFAO) SUD (UNIFAO) SWI (LSD) Somalia St. Lucia Sudan Switzerland
SOM (UNIFAO) STP (BAS) SUN (IS03) SWI (UNIFAO) Somalia Sao Tome and USSR Switzerland
Principe SOU (BAS) SUR (CTR) SWZ (lS03) South Africa STP(CTR) Suriname Swaziland
Sao Tome and SOY (BAS) Principe SUR (IS03) SY (IS02) Soviet Union Suriname Syrian Arab Republic
STP (lS03) SP (LSD) Sao Tome and SUR (LSD) SYC (lS03) Spain Principe Suriname Seychelles
SPM (lS03) STP (LSD) SUR (UNIFAO) SYR (BAS) St. Pierre and Sao Tome and Suriname Syrian Arab Republic Miquelon Principe
SV (CTR) SYR (CTR) SPN (BAS) STP (UNIFAO) St. Vincent and the Syrian Arab Republic Spain Sao Tome and Grenadines
Principe SYR (lS03) SR (lS02) SV (lS02) Syrian Arab Republic Suriname STP (WB) EI Salvador
Sao Tome and SYR (LSD) SRI (BAS) Principe SW (CTR) Syrian Arab Republic Sri Lanka (Formerly Swaziland Ceylon) STV (BAS) SYR (UNIFAO)
St. Vincent and the SW (LSD) Syrian Arab Republic SRL (UNIFAO) Grenadines Swaziland Sri Lanka (Formerly SYR (WB) Ceylon) STV (LSD) SW (WB) Syrian Arab Republic
St. Vincent and the Swaziland SRM (BAS) Grenadines SZ (lS02) Suriname SWA (BAS) Swaziland
STV (UNIFAO) Swaziland ST (IS02) St. Vincent and the TA (CTR) Sao Tome and Grenadines SWA (UNIFAO) Tanzania Principe Swaziland
STV (WB) TA (LSD) STH (BAS) St. Vincent and the SWE (BAS) Tanzania St. Helena Grenadines Sweden
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TA (WB) TN (IS02) TR(WB) TUR (UN/FAO) Tanzania Tunisia Trinidad and Tobaeo Turlcey
TAN (BAS) TNG(BAS) TRI (BAS) TUV (BAS) Tanzania Tonea Trinidad and Tobaeo Tuvalu
TC (1S02) TO (CTR) TRI (UNIFAO) TUV (1S03) Turks and Caicos Togo Trinidad and Tobago Tuvalu Islands
TO (IS02) TRL (BAS) TUV (UNIFAO) TCA (1S03) Tonga Trucial Slates Tuvalu Turks and Caicns Islands TO (LSD) TT (1S02) TV (1S02)
Togo Trinidad and Tobaeo Tuvalu TCD (IS03) Chad TO (WB) TTO (1S03) TW (1S02)
Togo Trinidad and Tobago Taiwan TCI (UN/FAO) Turks and Caicns TOG (BAS) TU (CTR) TWM (1S03) Islands Togo Turkey Taiwan
TD (1S02) TOG (UN/FAO) TU (LSD) TZ (1S02) Chad Togo Turkey Tanzania
TG (IS02) TOK (UNIFAO) TU (WB) TZA (1S03) Togo Tokelau Turkey Tanzania
TGO (IS03) TON (CTR) TUN (BAS) UA (1S02) Togo Tonga Tunisia Ukrainian SSR
TH (CTR) TON (IS03) TUN (CTR) UAE (BAS) Thailand Tonga Tunisia United Arab
Emirates TH(WB) TON (UN/FAO) TUN (1S03) Thailand Tonga Tunisia UAE (CTR)
United Arab THA (UNIFAO) TON (WB) TUN (LSD) Emirates Thailand Tonga Tunisia
UAE (LSD) TIP (UNIFAO) TP (IS02) TUN (UNIF AO) United Arab Micronesia, Palau, East Timor Tunisia Emirates Masrball Island
TR (CTR) TUN (WB) UAE (UNIF AO) TK (1S02) Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia United Arab Tokelau Emirates
TR (IS02) TUR (BAS) TKL (IS03) Turkey Turkey UAN (BAS) Tokelau Uganda
TR (LSD) TUR (1S03) TMP (1S03) Trinidad and Tobaeo Turkey UG (CTR) East Timor Ueanda
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UG (lS02) US (IS02) VE (lS02) VU (lS02) Uganda United states Venezuela Vanuatu
UG (LSD) USA (BAS) VE (LSD) VUT (IS03) Uganda United States Venezuela Vanuatu
UG(WB) USA (lS03) VE (WB) WAK (lS03) Uganda United States Venezuela Wake Island
UGA (lS03) USA (LSD) VEN (BAS) WEG(WB) Uganda United States Venezuela Germany
UGA (UNIFAO) UV (LSD) VEN (IS03) WF (lS02) Uganda Burkina Faso Venezuela Wallis and Futuna
Islands UK (LSD) UY (lS02) VEN (UNIF AO) United Kingdom Uruguay Venezuela WFI (UN/FAO)
Wallis and Futuna UKG (BAS) VA (CTR) VG (lS02) Islands United Kingdom Vanuatu British Virgin Islands
WK (lS02) UKR (IS03) VA (lS02) VGB (lS03) Wake Island Ukrainian SSR Vatican City State British Virgin Islands
WLF (IS03) UNI (CTR) VA (LSD) VI (lS02) Wallis and Futuna Nigeria Vanuatu Virgin Islands Islands
UNI (WB) VA (WB) VIE (UN/FAO) WS (lS02) Nigeria Vanuatu Viet Nam Samoa
UR (CTR) Uruguay
VAN (BAS) Vanuatu
VIR (lS03) Virgin Islands
WSM (BAS) Western Samoa
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UR (LSD) VAN (UNIFAO) VIS (BAS) WSM (lS03) Uruguay Vanuatu Virgin Islands Samoa
UR(WB) VAT (lS03) VN (CTR) WSO (CTR) Uruguay Vatican City State Viet Nam Western Samoa
URT (UNIF AO) VC (IS02) VN (lS02) WSO (LSD) Tanzania St. Vincent and the Viet Nam Western Samoa
Grenadines URU (BAS) VN (LSD) WSO (WB) Uruguay vcr (IS03) VietNam Western Samoa
St. Vincent and the URU (UNIFAO) Grenadines VNM (BAS) YE (IS02) UrujU8Y VietNam Yemen, Republic of
VE (CTR) URY (IS03) Venezuela VNM (IS03) YEM (CTR) Uruguay VietNam Yemen, Republic of
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YEM (IS03) ZAM (BAS) Yemen, Republic of Zambia
YEM(LSD) ZAM (UN/FAO) Yemen, Republic of Zambia
YEM (UNIFAO) ZAR (IS03) Yemen, Republic of Zaire
YU (CTR) ZIM (BAS) Yugoslavia Zimbabwe
YU (IS02) ZIM (CTR) Yugoslavia Zimbabwe
YU (LSD) ZIM (LSD) Yugoslavia Zimbabwe
YU(WB) ZIM (UN/F AO) Yugoslavia Zimbabwe
YUG (BAS) ZIM (WB) Yugoslavia Zimbabwe
YUG (IS03) ZM (IS02) Yugoslavia Zambia
YUG (UNIFAO) 2MB (IS03) Yugoslavia Zambia
ZA (CTR) ZR (CTR) Zambia Zaire
ZA (IS02) ZR (IS02) South Africa Zaire
ZA (LSD) ZR (LSD) Zambia Zaire
ZA (WB) ZR (WB) Zambia Zaire
ZAF (IS03) ZW (IS02) South Africa Zimbabwe
ZAI (BAS) ZWE (IS03) Zaire Zimbabwe
ZAI (UNIFAO) Zaire