As the table shows, many low-income countries face the most climate threats, as identified by the World Bank. A number of the most-threatened countries are also in the Least Developed Countries category, and six of them are in "fragile situations," also as identified by the World Bank.
Among the hundred finalists in the recent DM2009 competition, 26 of them came from most-threatened countries. Bangladesh, which ranked first among most threatened, had five entries, but no competition winners.