Frontier market

Market classification.

A frontier market is too small to be considered an emerging market but is more developed than a least developing country.

Markets (in order of economic development) are often classified as:

Developed;

Emerging;

Frontier;

Least Developing.

Different organisations produce slightly different lists of countries within each of these categories.

Examples of frontier markets in MSCI's classification include - in alphabetical order - Bahrain, Bangladesh, Croatia, Estonia and Iceland.

See also

• Developed market
• Emerging market
• International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
• Least developing market
• Market
• United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

External link

• Market classifications - MSCI