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

* Data from the 2021 triennial review

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LDC status

Inclusion: 1977

Graduation: Met the criteria for the first time in 2021

Reports and resolutions

	Inclusion
	CDP report: 1977
	GA resolutions: A/RES/31/42, A/RES/32/92
	Graduation
	CDP report: 2021

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

	Value:		$ 1,367
	Thresholds
	Inclusion:		$ 1,018
	Graduation:		$ 1,222
	Income-only graduation:		$ 2,444

Human assets index (HAI)*

	Index:		67.2
	Thresholds
	Inclusion:		60 or below
	Graduation:		66 or above

	HAI indicators
	Under-five mortality rate			Gross secondary school enrolment ratio
		Value:	62.9		Value:	59.5
		Index:	67.9		Index:	55.0
		Source:	UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation		Source:	UNESCO
	Prevalence of stunting			Adult literacy rate
		Value:	23.7		Value:	58.8
		Index:	57.6		Index:	45.1
		Source:	UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates		Source:	UNESCO
	Maternal Mortality Rate			Gender parity index for gross secondary school enrolment
		Value:	273		Value:	1.07
		Index:	77.6		Index:	100.0
		Source:	UN IAG for Maternal Mortality		Source:	UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

	Index:		37.7
	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:	34.0		Value:	3.2
		Index:	55.9		Index:	9.2
		Source:	UN/DESA, Statistics Division		Source:	CIESIN
	Remoteness and landlockedness			Share of population living in drylands
		Value:	64.0		Value:	0.0
		Index:	67.5		Index:	0.0
		Source:	CDP		Source:	CDP
	Merchandise export concentration			Instability of agricultural production
		Value:	0.67		Value:	1.4
		Index:	67.6		Index:	0.0
		Source:	UNCTAD		Source:	FAO
	Instability of exports of goods and services			Victims of disasters
		Value:	5.1		Value:	4.95
		Index:	10.3		Index:	90.7
		Source:	UN/DESA, Statistics Division		Source:	EM-DAT