Least Developed Country Category: Bhutan Profile

* Data from the 2021 triennial review

Bhutan Country Profile in PDF

LDC status

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Inclusion: 1971

Graduation: Scheduled to graduate in 2023

Reports and resolutions

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Inclusion

CDP report: 1971
GA resolution: A/RES/2768(XXVI)

Graduation

CDP reports: 2015, 2018
ECOSOC resolution: E/RES/2018/27
GA resolution: A/RES/73/133
Impact assessment: 2018
Vulnerability profile: 2018
Country statement: 2018 CDP Plenary statement
Country presentation: 2018 CDP EGM presentation
Monitoring reports: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Country reports: 2021

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

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Value:

$ 2,982

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Thresholds

Inclusion: $ 1,018
Graduation: $ 1,222
Income-only graduation: $ 2,444

Human assets index (HAI)*

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Index:

79.5

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Thresholds

Inclusion: 60 or below
Graduation: 66 or above

HAI indicators

Under-five mortality rate
Gross secondary school enrolment ratio
stat Value: 28.5 stat Value: 90.1
Index: 88.8 Index: 89.0
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: UNESCO
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 23.0 stat Value: 66.6
Index: 58.9 Index: 55.4
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for gross secondary school enrolment
stat Value: 183 stat Value: 1.13
Index: 85.1 Index: 100.0
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

25.7

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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: 16.2 stat Value: 0.0
Index: 25.8 Index: 0.0
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 51.2 stat Value: 0.0
Index: 51.5 Index: 0.0
Source: CDP Source: CDP
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 0.37 stat Value: 7.4
Index: 31.5 Index: 31.9
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 10.0 stat Value: 0.15
Index: 20.0 Index: 45.2
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: EM-DAT