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Least Developed Country Category: Yemen Profile

* Data from the 2024 triennial review

Yemen Snapshot in PDF

LDC status

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Inclusion: 1971

Reports and resolutions

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Inclusion

CDP report:
GA resolution:

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

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Value:

$ 350

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Thresholds

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

Human assets index (HAI)*

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Index:

62.5

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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: 41.3 stat Value: 52.8
Index: 81.0 Index: 47.6
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: CSO Yemen, MICS
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 35.1 stat Value: 70.0
Index: 34.8 Index: 59.9
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for lower secondary education completion
stat Value: 183 stat Value: 0.8
Index: 85.1 Index: 66.3
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source:  CSO Yemen, MICS

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

41.3

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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: 19.5 stat Value: 1.6
Index: 31.4 Index: 4.5
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 42.6 stat Value: 91.0
Index: 40.8 Index: 91.0
Source: CDP Secretariat Source: CDP Secretariat
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 7.4 stat Value: 5.6
Index: 56.1 Index: 22.2
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 13.6 stat Value: 1.31
Index: 27.1 Index: 57.2
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: UNDRR

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