Least Developed Country Category: Cambodia Profile 2021 | Economic Analysis and Policy Division

* Data from the 2021 triennial review

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LDC status

Inclusion: 1991

Graduation: Met the criteria for the first time in 2021

Reports and resolutions

	Inclusion
	CDP report: 1991
	GA resolution: A/RES/46/206
	Graduation
	CDP report: 2021

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

	Value:		$ 1,377
	Thresholds
	Inclusion:		$ 1,018
	Graduation:		$ 1,222
	Income-only graduation:		$ 2,444

Human assets index (HAI)*

	Index:		74.3
	Thresholds
	Inclusion:		60 or below
	Graduation:		66 or above

	HAI indicators
	Under-five mortality rate			Gross secondary school enrolment ratio
		Value:	26.6		Value:	54.8
		Index:	89.9		Index:	49.8
		Source:	UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation		Source:	CDP
	Prevalence of stunting			Adult literacy rate
		Value:	30.0		Value:	80.5
		Index:	45.0		Index:	74.0
		Source:	UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates		Source:	UNESCO
	Maternal Mortality Rate			Gender parity index for gross secondary school enrolment
		Value:	160		Value:	1.11
		Index:	87.0		Index:	100.0
		Source:	UN IAG for Maternal Mortality		Source:	UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

	Index:		30.6
	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
		Value:	23.5		Value:	2.0
		Index:	38.1		Index:	5.7
		Source:	UN/DESA, Statistics Division		Source:	CIESIN
	Remoteness and landlockedness			Share of population living in drylands
		Value:	44.8		Value:	0.0
		Index:	43.5		Index:	0.0
		Source:	CDP		Source:	CDP
	Merchandise export concentration			Instability of agricultural production
		Value:	0.27		Value:	7.0
		Index:	20.3		Index:	29.6
		Source:	UNCTAD		Source:	FAO
	Instability of exports of goods and services			Victims of disasters
		Value:	7.7		Value:	5.56
		Index:	15.4		Index:	92.3
		Source:	UN/DESA, Statistics Division		Source:	EM-DAT