Trafficking

Tier 1

Argentina

Australia

Austria

The Bahamas

Bahrain

Belgium

Canada

Chile

Colombia

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Estonia

Finland

France

Georgia

Guyana

Israel

Korea, South

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Namibia

Netherlands

New Zealand

Norway

Philippines

Portugal

Singapore

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Taiwan

United Kingdom

United States 

Tier 2

Albania

Angola

Antigua & Barbuda

Bangladesh

Benin

Bolivia

Botswana

Brazil

Bulgaria

Burkina Faso

Cabo Verde

Central African Republic

Congo, Republic Of 

Costa Rica

Cote D’ivoire

Croatia

Denmark

Djibouti

Ecuador

Egypt

El Salvador

Eswatini

Ethiopia

Gabon

Germany

Ghana

Greece

Guatemala

Haiti

Honduras

Hungary

Iceland

India

Indonesia

Iraq

Italy

Jamaica

Japan

Kenya

Kosovo

Kuwait

Laos

Latvia

Lebanon

Liberia

Tier 2

Madagascar

Malawi

Malta

Mauritius

Mexico

Micronesia

Moldova

Mongolia

Montenegro

Morocco

Mozambique

Nepal

Niger

North Macedonia

Oman

Palau

Panama

Paraguay

Peru

Poland

Qatar

Rwanda

Saint Lucia

St. Vincent & Grens

Serbia

Sierra Leone

St. Maarten

Slovakia

Solomon Islands

South Africa

Suriname

Tajikistan

Thailand

Togo

Tonga

Trinidad And Tobago

Tunisia

Turkey

Ukraine

United Arab Emirates

Uruguay

Vanuatu

Zimbabwe

Tier 2 Watch List

Armenia

Aruba

Azerbaijan

Barbados

Belize

Bhutan

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Brunei

Cambodia

Cameroon

Chad

Congo, DRC

Curaçao

Dominican Republic

Equatorial Guinea

Fiji

The Gambia

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Hong Kong

Ireland

Jordan

Kazakhstan

Kyrgyz Republic

Macau

Malaysia

Maldives

Mali

Marshall Islands

Mauritania

Nigeria

Pakistan

Romania

Saudi Arabia

Senegal

Seychelles

Sri Lanka

Sudan

Tanzania

Timor-Leste

Uganda

Uzbekistan

Vietnam

Zambia

Tier 3

Afghanistan

Algeria

Belarus

Burma

Burundi

China

Comoros

Cuba

Eritrea

Iran

Korea, North

Lesotho

Nicaragua

Papua New Guinea

Russia

South Sudan

Syria

Turkmenistan

Venezuela

Special Case

Libya
Somalia
Yemen

The Tiers

Tier 1

Countries whose governments fully meet the Trafficking Victims Protection Act’s (TVPA) minimum standards.

Tier 2

Countries whose governments do not fully meet the TVPA’s minimum standards, but are making significant efforts to meet those standards.

Tier 2 Watch List

Countries whose governments do not fully meet the TVPA’s minimum standards, but are making significant efforts to meet those standards and:

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a) The absolute number of victims of severe forms of trafficking is very significant or is significantly increasing;

b) There is a failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons from the previous year, including increased investigations, prosecutions, and convictions of trafficking crimes, increased assistance to victims, and decreasing evidence of complicity in severe forms of trafficking by government officials; or

c) The determination that a country is making significant efforts to meet the 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 meet the minimum standards and are not making significant efforts to do so.