LMIC lists of countries

[Caroline-A]

For the "developing countries", we have taken terms from a filter for LMICs (2020) from the Norwegian Satellite of Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC), developed by the Norwegian Institute of Public Heath (https://epoc.cochrane.org/lmic-filters). We edited it to remove some duplicate terms from LEDCs/SIDS/LDS, redundant terms, terms we felt could be too broad, and very outdated terms (as we only look back to 2015). We added terms we felt should be there, for example, "palestinian" was not originally in the filter. Other terms we have absorbed into truncated terms.

@EliSeland has done some digging and found several terms where Web of Science throws a "did you mean":

• "burkinese" -> "burinese" - I can't really find much information about this, it looks like it might be used to refer to a group but it is unclear who. May be an antiquated term to do with Burma? Or may be related to the French Burinois (which is not Burma)?
• "myanma" -> "myanmar" - that "Myanmar" is already an included term, so I suggest we ignore this suggested change
• "eswantian" -> "essantial" - I can't find this term, misspelling of essential?
• "kirgizstan" -> "kirghizstan" - We currently include "Kyrgyzstan" OR "Kyrgyz*" OR "kirghizia" OR "kirgizstan". I believe this variant may be a French spelling (?) that should maybe be included
• "gabonaise" -> "gabonaises" - French plural?
• "macanese" -> "maganese" - the only results i find are to do with Manganese (the metallic element), or related maybe to the related term where it stems from, "magnesia"? I don't find anything related to "Macao"

I have also seen that FHI are revising this filter in 2022. So I suggest that we check back when they publish the new version.

[Caroline-A]

Updated filter has arrived: https://epoc.cochrane.org/lmic-filters