Meanwhile, under the current graduation criteria, it is of the utmost importance that the States and organs influencing or deciding the cases of graduation (LDCs themselves, the CDP, ECOSOC and the General Assembly) continue to take due account of factors other than the statistical eligibility for graduation. As can be seen in table 2.1, this has been the practice in graduation cases to date. Other projections, which apply different methodologies and assumptions, have obtained different results. Drabo and Guillaumont (2016) project that between 8 and 13 LDCs will meet the income-only graduation criterion in the 2021 review of the list of LDCs, depending on assumptions for the gross national income (GNI)/gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate.