Least Developed Country Category: Eritrea Profile 2021

* Data from the 2021 triennial review

Eritrea Snapshot in PDF

LDC status

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Inclusion: 1994

Reports and resolutions

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Inclusion

CDP report: 1994
GA resolution: A/RES/49/133

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

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Value:

$ 589

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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:

57.2

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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: 40.5 stat Value: 47.7
Index: 81.5 Index: 41.9
Source: UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation Source: UNESCO
Prevalence of stunting
Adult literacy rate
stat Value: 49.5 stat Value: 76.6
Index: 5.9 Index: 68.8
Source: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates Source: UNESCO
Maternal Mortality Rate
Gender parity index for gross secondary school enrolment
stat Value: 480 stat Value: 0.91
Index: 60.3 Index: 84.9
Source: UN IAG for Maternal Mortality Source: UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

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Index:

50.2

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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: 17.3 stat Value: 15.5
Index: 27.6 Index: 44.2
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: CIESIN
Remoteness and landlockedness
Share of population living in drylands
stat Value: 40.7 stat Value: 99.1
Index: 38.3 Index: 99.1
Source: CDP Source: CDP
Merchandise export concentration
Instability of agricultural production
stat Value: 0.29 stat Value: 8.9
Index: 22.0 Index: 39.8
Source: UNCTAD Source: FAO
Instability of exports of goods and services
Victims of disasters
stat Value: 23.9 stat Value: 2.79
Index: 47.8 Index: 83.2
Source: UN/DESA, Statistics Division Source: EM-DAT