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Least Developed Country Category: Bhutan Profile

* Data from the 2024 triennial review

Bhutan Country Profile in PDF

LDC status

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Inclusion: 1971

Graduation: 13 December 2023

Reports and resolutions

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Inclusion

CDP report:
GA resolution:

Graduation

CDP reports: ,
ECOSOC resolution:
GA resolution: ,
Impact assessment: 2018
Vulnerability profile: 2018
Country statement: 2018 CDP Plenary statement
Country presentation: 2018 CDP EGM presentation
Monitoring reports: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Country reports: 2021

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

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Value:

$ 3,311

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Thresholds

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

Human assets index (HAI)*

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Index:

79.4

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Thresholds

Inclusion: 60 or below
Graduation: 66 or above

HAI indicators

Under-five mortality rate
Lower secondary education completion
stat Value: 23.7 stat Value: 70.3
Index: 91.7 Index: 67.0
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: UNESCO
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 22.7 stat Value: 72.1
Index: 59.6 Index: 62.8
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for lower secondary education completion
stat Value: 60 stat Value: 1.0
Index: 95.4 Index: 100.0
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

31.2

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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: 15.8 stat Value: 0.0
Index: 25.0 Index: 0.0
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 50.1 stat Value: 0.3
Index: 50.1 Index: 0.3
Source: CDP Secretariat Source: CDP Secretariat
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 8.3 stat Value: 11.6
Index: 71.9 Index: 54.7
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 8.7 stat Value: 0.28
Index: 17.3 Index: 30.1
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: UNDRR

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