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Least Developed Country Category: Eritrea Profile

* Data from the 2024 triennial review

Eritrea Snapshot in PDF

LDC status

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Inclusion: 1994

Reports and resolutions

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Inclusion

CDP report:
GA resolution:

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

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Value:

$ 609

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Thresholds

Inclusion: $ 1,088
Graduation: $ 1,306

Human assets index (HAI)*

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Index:

60.2

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Thresholds

Inclusion: 60 or below
Graduation: 66 or above

HAI indicators

Under-five mortality rate
Lower secondary education completion rate
stat Value: 36.6 stat Value: 47.3
Index: 83.9 Index: 41.4
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: UNESCO
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 50.2 stat Value: 76.6
Index: 4.6 Index: 68.8
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for lower secondary education completion
stat Value: 322 stat Value: 1.0
Index: 73.5 Index: 100.0
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

56.4

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Thresholds

Inclusion: 36 or above
Graduation: 32 or below

EVI indicators

Share of agriculture, forestry and fishing in GDP
Share of population in low elevated coastal zones
stat Value: 17.3 stat Value: 15.5
Index: 27.6 Index: 44.2
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 40.7 stat Value: 99.8
Index: 38.3 Index: 99.8
Source: CDP Secretariat Source: CDP Secretariat
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 8.5 stat Value: 9.0
Index: 74.3 Index: 40.5
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 25.2 stat Value: 3.77
Index: 50.4 Index: 75.8
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: UNDRR

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