Least Developed Country Category: Equatorial Guinea Profile

* Data from the 2021 triennial review

Equatorial Guinea Snapshot in PDF

LDC status

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Inclusion: 1982

Graduation: 2017

Reports and resolutions

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Inclusion

CDP reports: 1981, 1982
ECOSOC resolutions: E/DEC/1980/161, E/DEC/1982/106, E/RES/1982/41
GA resolutions: A/RES/35/106, A/RES/37/133

Graduation

CDP reports: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
ECOSOC resolutions: E/RES/2009/35, E/RES/2011/20, E/RES/2012/32
GA resolution: A/RES/68/18
Impact assessment: 2009
Vulnerability profile: 2009
Country statement: 2009 CDP EGM, 2009 CDP Plenary - English, 2009 CDP Plenary - Spanish
Monitoring reports: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

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Value:

$ 7,617

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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:

67.1

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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: 81.8 stat Value: 29.3
Index: 56.5 Index: 21.4
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: CDP
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 20.5 stat Value: 94.4
Index: 64.0 Index: 92.5
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for gross secondary school enrolment
stat Value: 301 stat Value: 0.96
Index: 75.2 Index: 92.8
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: CDP

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

18.7

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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: 2.4 stat Value: 5.7
Index: 2.3 Index: 16.2
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 49.1 stat Value: 0.0
Index: 48.8 Index: 0.0
Source: CDP Source: CDP
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 0.65 stat Value: 1.5
Index: 64.7 Index: 0.0
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 8.7 stat Value: 0.0
Index: 17.4 Index: 0.0
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: EM-DAT