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Least Developed Country Category: Gambia Profile

* Data from the 2024 triennial review

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LDC status

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Inclusion: 1975

Reports and resolutions

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Inclusion

CDP report: 1975
ECOSOC resolution: E/RES/1976(LIX)
GA resolution:

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

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Value:

$ 750

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Thresholds

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

Human assets index (HAI)*

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Index:

69.0

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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: 45.6 stat Value: 55.7
Index: 78.4 Index: 50.7
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: UNESCO
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 13.6 stat Value: 58.7
Index: 77.8 Index: 44.9
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for lower secondary education completion
stat Value: 458 stat Value: 1.1
Index: 62.1 Index: 100.0
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

45.5

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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: 24.0 stat Value: 4.3
Index: 38.9 Index: 12.3
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 46.4 stat Value: 12.9
Index: 45.5 Index: 12.9
Source: CDP Secretariat Source: CDP Secretariat
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 7.4 stat Value: 16.7
Index: 56.5 Index: 82.3
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 15.6 stat Value: 6.26
Index: 31.2 Index: 84.7
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: UNDRR

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