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Least Developed Country Category: Benin Profile

* Data from the 2024 triennial review

Benin 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:

$ 1,316

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Thresholds

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

Human assets index (HAI)*

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Index:

48.6

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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: 80.8 stat Value: 43.7
Index: 57.1 Index: 37.5
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: UNESCO
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 30.4 stat Value: 47.1
Index: 44.2 Index: 29.5
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for lower secondary education completion
stat Value: 523 stat Value: 0.8
Index: 56.7 Index: 66.9
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

34.2

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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: 30.2 stat Value: 7.3
Index: 49.6 Index: 20.7
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 47.6 stat Value: 9.7
Index: 47.0 Index: 9.7
Source: CDP Secretariat Source: CDP Secretariat
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 7.1 stat Value: 6.3
Index: 51.5 Index: 25/7
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 5.6 stat Value: 1.38
Index: 11.3 Index: 58.2
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: UNDRR

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