TIER Placement

The Tiers

TIER 1
Countries whose governments fully comply with the Trafficking Victims Protection Act’s (TVPA) minimum standards

TIER 2
Countries whose governments do not fully comply with the TVPA’s minimum standards, but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards

TIER 2 WATCH LIST
Countries whose governments do not fully comply with the TVPA’s minimum standards, but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards AND:
a) The absolute number of victims of severe forms of trafficking is very significant or is
significantly increasing; or
b) There is a failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons from the previous year; or
c) The determination that a country is making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with minimum standards was based on commitments by the country to take additional future steps over the next year

TIER 3
Countries whose governments do not fully comply with the minimum standards and are not making significant efforts to do so

Tier Placements

TIER 1

Australia	Denmark	Lithuania	Norway
Austria	Finland	Luxembourg	Poland
Belgium	France	Macedonia	Slovenia
Canada	Georgia	Mauritius	Spain
Colombia	Germany	The Netherlands	Sweden
Croatia	Italy	New Zealand	Switzerland
Czech Republic	Korea, Rep. of	Nigeria	United Kingdom

TIER 2

Afghanistan	El Salvador	Laos	Romania
Albania	Estonia	Liberia	Rwanda
Antigua & Barbuda	Ethiopia	Macau	Serbia
Armenia	The Gambia	Madagascar	Sierra Leone
The Bahamas	Greece	Malawi	Singapore
Barbados	Honduras	The Maldives	Slovak Republic
Belarus	Hong Kong	Malta	South Africa
Benin	Hungary	Mexico	Suriname
Bolivia	Iceland	Mongolia	Taiwan
Bosnia & Herzegovina	Indonesia	Morocco	Tanzania
Botswana	Ireland	Mozambique	Thailand
Brazil	Israel	Namibia	Timor-Leste
Brunei	Jamaica	Nepal	Togo
Bulgaria	Japan	Oman	Trinidad & Tobago
Burkina Faso	Jordan	Palau	Turkey
Chile	Kazakhstan	Panama	Uganda
Costa Rica	Kenya	Paraguay	Uruguay
Cyprus	Kosovo	Peru	Vietnam
Ecuador	Kyrgyz Republic	Portugal	Zambia

TIER 2 WATCH LIST

Algeria	Congo, Rep. of	Iraq	Qatar
Angola	Cote d’Ivoire	Latvia	Russia
Argentina	Djibouti	Lebanon	St. Vincent & the Gren.
Azerbaijan	Dominican Republic	Lesotho	Senegal
Bahrain	Egypt	Libya	Sri Lanka
Bangladesh	Equatorial Guinea	Mali	Tajikistan
Belize	Gabon	Micronesia	Tunisia
Burundi	Ghana	Moldova	Turkmenistan
Cambodia	Guatemala	Montenegro	Ukraine
Cameron	Guinea	The Neth. Antilles	United Arab Emirates
Central African Rep.	Guinea-Bissau	Nicaragua	Uzbekistan
China (PRC)	Guyana	Pakistan	Venezuela
Congo (DRC)	India	Philippines	Yemen

TIER 3

Burma	Iran	North Korea	Syria
Chad	Kuwait	Papua New Guinea	Zimbabwe
Cuba	Malaysia	Saudi Arabia
Eritrea	Mauritania	Sudan
Fiji	Niger	Swaziland